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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And it being not Regiment but Concord that is the end of Synods (as over Bishops) there is no more use than possibility of an Universal Council, or one Universal College; But the necessity and aptitude of Councils for strengthening concord, must measure their extent.
And it being not Regiment but Concord that is the end of Synods (as over Bishops) there is no more use than possibility of an Vniversal Council, or one Vniversal Colledge; But the necessity and aptitude of Councils for strengthning concord, must measure their extent.
What Mr. D's opinion is of the degree of corporal punishment, which he would have used to his ends, I know not: Mr. Thorndike is against Death and Banishment. For my part, the two greatest things that have alienated me from Popery are; 1. That it cherisheth Ignorance, and I am sure that is the soil of all wickedness; God, Christ, the Spirit and Scripture, are Light; and Satan is the Prince of Darkness. 2. That it liveth like the Leech on blood, hating and destroying the most holy persons who differ from them: To these my Soul is unreconcilable. I hate cruelty to Papists or Infidels, much more to godly faithful persons, that do hurt to none.
And I think I have convinced Mr. Dodwell himself that I am not inclined for the avoiding of Popery, to run into any contrary Extreme; nor to imitate them tha• ignorantly call Truth, or harmless things, Antichristian or Popish. The name of Popery doth not affright me from any truth of God: What I have written in many Books, especially in the last part of my Catholic Theology, and what censures I have suffered for it, (which never moved me to comply with the Censurers) I think prove it. I again and again profess, That if the Papists, or such as I now deal with, would but prove, that God ever made or allowed such a Church as they plead for in the world, that is an