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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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4. And I doubt not but if you unjustly ipso facto Excommunicate men, it neither depriveth them of the right, nor absolveth them from the duty of public Worship, and Church-Communion. And I am ashamed to read and hear Preachers publicly reproaching them for not holding constant Communion with the Parish-Churches, when it's notorious that the Canon hath thus Excommunicated them, yea though it were their duty sometime to intrude.
4. And I doubt not but if you unjustly ipso facto Excommunicate men, it neither depriveth them of the right, nor absolveth them from the duty of publick Worship, and Church-Communion. And I am ashamed to read and hear Preachers publickly reproaching them for not holding constant Communion with the Parish-Churches, when it's notorious that the Canon hath thus Excommunicated them, yea though it were their duty sometime to intrude.
And I beseech you judg as a Christian or a man, whether you can think such Arguments should draw the people themselves to be of your mind: Go to them and speak out, Neighbours, I confess that while you live in ignorance and sin for want of teaching and public worship, you are in the way to damnation; but it is the Bishop, and not the silenced Preacher that shall answer for it. Will they not reply, And shall not the Bishop then he damned instead of us, as well as instead of the silenced Preacher?
And I beseech you judg as a Christian or a man, whether you can think such Arguments should draw the people themselves to be of your mind: Go to them and speak out, Neighbours, I confess that while you live in ignorance and sin for want of teaching and publick worship, you are in the way to damnation; but it is the Bishop, and not the silenced Preacher that shall answer for it. Will they not reply, And shall not the Bishop then he damned instead of us, as well as instead of the silenced Preacher?