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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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To conclude, I grant the Superiority of Magistrates, and of their Officers, circa sacra, but not that Inferior Clergymen may by consent, make a Superior Species of Rulers (or Episcopos Episcoporum) by the Keys, in eodem genere.
But I confess, that how far Christ himself hath made Apostolic Successors, or Archbishops, as to the ordinary part of governing many Churches, is a question to me of much more difficulty, and moment.
But I confess, that how far Christ himself hath made Apostolick Successors, or Archbishops, as to the ordinary part of governing many Churches, is a question to me of much more difficulty, and moment.
As for the Patriarchal, and other Superior Church-power in the Roman Empire, that it was made partly by the Emperors themselves (as the instances of the two Justiniana's, and many others show), and partly by Councils, Authorized thereto by the Emperors, is past all doubt.
As for the Patriarchal, and other Superior Church-power in the Roman Empire, that it was made partly by the Emperors themselves (as the instances of the two Iustiniana's, and many others shew), and partly by Councils, Authorized thereto by the Emperors, is past all doubt.