A26860:470
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.
2. Dr. Hammond's argument against Presbyters Ordination is, Nemo dat quod non habet; which though it serve not his turn on several accounts (both because 1. They have the Order which they confer. 2. Because Ordination is not giving, but Ministerial delivery by Investiture); yet in this case it will hold; For 1. This is supposed to be a new institution of an Office. 2. And that of an higher power than ever the Institutors had themselves: The King giveth all his Officers their power, but all of them cannot give the King his power. The Patriarch cannot make a Pope, nor the Metropolitans a Patriarch, that shall have a power over them, which they never had themselves.
And what I say of Superior Orders, and Offices, I say of Synods; For whether the power be Monarchical, or Aristocratical, or Democratical, there is need of the same power in the Cause that maketh it: No man can give that which he hath not to give.
And what I say of Superior Orders, and Offices, I say of Synods; For whether the power be Monarchica•, or Aristocratical, or Democratical, there is need of the same power in the Cause that maketh it: No man can give that which he hath not to give.
If you should fly to such popular Principles, as the Episcopal Champion, Richard Hooker, doth, and the Jesuits in their Politics, and many; yea, most other Writers of Politics, and say, That as the people are the givers of power to the Sovereign, though they are no Governors themselves, so the Bishops give power to the Episcopi Episcoporum (personal, or Synodical), I answer, The Principle is false about Civil Policy, as ⟨p. 136⟩I have proved against Mr. Hooker, in my Christian Directory, and as Dr. Hammond hath proved in the Kings Cause, against John Goodwin. The power every man hath over himself, doth so specifically differ from the power of Governing-Societies, that the latter is not caused by all mens Contribution of the former; and much more in Church-Government, which God hath left less the Will of man (as Mr. Dan. Cawdry hath proved).