A26860:52
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
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A late Letter from Mr. Dodwell, calling for more Answer, with the Answer to it, written since the rest was Printed, though it be here placed.
Reverend Sir, I Am now in the Country, and as yet in so unsettled a condition, as obliges me to be a Stranger to new Works. However, by the short view I have when I come into Shops, I find you put me off for a Reply to Mr. Clarkson's little Pamphlet concerning Diocesan Jurisdiction: I have got it and perused it, and the design of my writing at present is, to acquaint you with the reason why I think my self unconcerned in it, if that be all I must expect from you in Answer to my yet unanswered Letters. You must excuse me, if I cannot think that Book an Answer, which as it was written before them by your own confession, so neither doth it foresee the accounts given in those Letters, nor provide against them: Whether it do so, let the Reader judge. But to return to the account intended, why I cannot think my self concerned in this new Pamphlet of Mr. Clarkson's, be pleased to understand, that the excellent Dean of St. Pauls being engaged against you on the same Argument of my Letters, was pleased to put himself to the trouble of perusing my Papers, as they came from the Press, purposely that he might avoid repeating what had been said by me. This being so, you may easily understand how far I am concerned in what is said to him, when it was indeed wholly distinct from mine. Not that I should have been unwilling to serve that great Person, but that I know he is in much better hands already. Mr. Clarkson in this Pamphlet, as he has only mentioned Dr. Stillingfleets name, so he hath confined himself to his Arguments, and hath taken notice of nothing in my Letters not considered by the Doctor. If he will be pleased to engage further, I confess I like his temper better than any I have seen of your late Brethren, except Dr. Owen. Such an Adversary I should desire, as would confine himself to the Cause, without digressing to personal Slanders. There is one mistake in him,