A26860:44
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.
These things I have taken the boldness to ask some of the greatest, that on the fore mentioned terms appropriate the name of the Church of England to their Sect or Party, and I could get no answer from them, viz. Whether they took the Councils of Constance and Basil for Papists? And whether they now take the Bishops and Church of France for Papists? And whether they took Gerson, Cusanus, Cassander, Erasmus, for Papists, or not?
2. If yea, What is the difference between the said Papists Church-Form and Government, and that which these call the Church Catholic, and Dispute for?
2. If yea, What is the difference between the said Papists Church-Form and Government, and that which these call the Church Catholick, and Dispute for?
3. If not, Then is not the Controversie de nomine, Whether the French Bishops and Church, and the said Councils being of the same Form and Religion with the Church of England, (as called by these men) ought to be called Papists, or not? And for that I shall strive with none: Let every man call them as he seeth cause; or if he will, as they will call themselves. Let them be Papists in France, and Protestants in England; I contend not for names. But I wonder not at these Church-men, if they unchurch the French Protestants, and condemn their Ministry and Sacraments as none; How else could their Persecution be justified?