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An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…
An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal sovereignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal soveraignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Chapter 5: Wherein Mr. Dodwell's deceits, and the danger of them do consist.
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12. The Apostles were Bishops eminenter, in that they called, gathered, and while they stayed with them, governed Churches. But not formaliter as taking any one particular Church for their proper charge: But settled such fixed Bishops over them. And though they distributed their labours about the world prudently, and as the Spirit of Christ guided them; yet we find not any probability that ever they divided the world into twelve or thirteen Provinces, or ever settled twelve or thirteen chief Metropolitical seats in the world, which their proper Successors as such should govern in preeminence. Nor doth any History intimate such a thing; nor yet that any Apostle took any City for his proper Diocese, where another Apostle might not come and exercise equal Power.
12. The Apostles were Bishops eminenter, in that they called, gathered, and while they stayed with them, governed Churches. But not formaliter as taking any one particular Church for their proper charge: But setled such fixed Bishops over them. And though they distributed their labours about the world prudently, and as the Spirit of Christ guided them; yet we find not any probability that ever they divided the world into twelve or thirteen Provinces, or ever setled twelve or thirteen chief Metropolitical seats in the world, which their proper Successors as such should govern in preeminence. Nor doth any History intimate such a thing; nor yet that any Apostle took any City for his proper Diocess, where another Apostle might not come and exercise equal Power.
13. It seemeth that Christs sending out his seventy Disciples by two and two, and the Apostles staying together much at Jerusalem, and Paul and Barnabas's going forth together, and after Paul & Silas, and Barnabas and Mark, & Peter and Paul (supposed) to be together at Rome, &c. that the Spirit of God did purposely prevent the intentions of any afterward of being the Metropolitical Successors of single Apostles or Disciples of Christs immediate sending, in this or that City as their proper seat.
13. It seemeth that Christs sending out his seventy Disciples by two and two, and the Apostles staying together much at Ierusalem, and Paul and Barnabas's going forth together, and after Paul & Silas, and Barnabas and Mark, & Peter and Paul (supposed) to be together at Rome, &c. that the Spirit of God did purposely prevent the intentions of any afterward of being the Metropolitical Successors of single Apostles or Disciples of Christs immediate sending, in this or that City as their proper seat.