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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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Say not, that I wrong you, by laying all this odium on your self. I lay it but on your words: And I doubt not, but (though disputing Interest draw such words from you) on consideration you will re-call them by some limitations.
II. My Reasons against your second, must pre-suppose, that we understand one another as to the sense of the word, Diocesan Church, which being your •erm, had I been with you, I must have desired you first to explain. The word, Diocese of old, you know, signified a part of the Empire, larger than a Province, and that had many Metropolitans in it. I suppose that is not your sense. Sometimes now it is taken for that space of ground which we call, a Diocese; sometimes for all the people in that space. And with us, a Diocesan Church, is a Church of the lowest Order, containing in it, a multitude of fixed Parochial Congregations, which have every one their stated Presbyter, who is no Bishop, and Unum altar, and are no Churches, but parts of a Church, and which is individuated by one Bishop, and the measuring-space of ground, whose inhabitants are its Members. Till you tell me the contrary, I must take this for your sense; For you profess to me, that you speak of such Diocesan Churches as ours (and they have some above a thousand, others many hundred Parishes), and you say our Parishes are not Churches, but Parts of a Church, and so Families are.
II. My Reasons against your second, must pre-suppose, that we understand one another as to the sense of the word, Diocesan Church, which being your •erm, had I been with you, I must have desired you first to explain. The word, Diocess of old, you know, signified a part of the Empire, larger than a Province, and that had many Metropolitans in it. I suppose that is not your sense. Sometimes now it is taken for that space of ground which we call, a Diocess; sometimes for all the people in that space. And with us, a Diocesan Church, is a Church of the lowest Order, containing in it, a multitude of fixed Parochial Congregations, which have every one their stated Presbyter, who is no Bishop, and Vnum altare, and are no Churches, but parts of a Church, and which is individuated by one Bishop, and the measuring-space of ground, whose inhabitants are its Members. Till you tell me the contrary, I must take this for your sense; For you profess to me, that you speak of such Diocesan Churches as ours (and they have some above a thousand, others many hundred Parishes), and you say our Parishes are not Churches, but Parts of a Church, and so Families are.