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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.
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.
I. My Reasons against the first are these: 1. Because this maketh Gods of men, and so is Idolatry, giving them Gods proper Power and Prerogative.
2. Yea, it taketh down God (or his Laws), and setteth them above him: For there cannot be two Absolute Governors that have not one Will. If I must not appeal from them to God, then I must appeal from God to them; that is, I must break his Law, if they bid me, or else they are not Absolute.
3. This maketh all Gods Laws at the will of ma•, as alterable, or dispensable: Man may forbid all that God commandeth, and I must obey.
3. This maketh all Gods Laws at the will of ma•, as alterable, or dispensible: Man may forbid all that God commandeth, and I must obey.