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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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9. But that the end of the Association be not only for distant communion by Delegates or Letters, or mere relation to one common Ruler as all the Empire had to the Emperor, but for PERSONAL COMMUNION of Pastor and Flock, so that they may at least per vices meet together, or live within the reach of each others personal notice, and converse, and Communion in Doctrine, Worship and Discipline, this is essential to a particular Church, primi ordinis, of Divine Institution, of which I now treat.
9. But that the end of the Association be not only for distan• communion by Delegates or Letters, or meer relation to one common Ruler as all the Empire had to the Emperour, but for PERSONAL COMMVNION of Pastor and Flock, so that they may at least per vices meet together, or live within the reach of each others personal notice, and converse, and Communion in Doctrine, Worship and Discipline, this is essential to a partiicular Church, primi ordinis, of Divine Institution, of which I now treat.
III. 1. As Christians must gather into particular Churches, under their proper Bishops; so these Churches must hold a certain Communion among themselves, so much as is necessary to their mutual Edification and Preservation, of which Synods, and Communicatory Letters and Messengers, are the means.
2. An association of several Churches for Communion of Churches, doth tota specie differ from an association of individual Christians into one Church primae speciei. And it differeth in the matter, end, and kind of Communion.