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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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IX. Baptism, as such, entereth not the Baptized into any particular Church, but only into the Universal, headed by Christ; yet a man may at the same time; be entered into the Universal, and into a particular Church, but that is by a double consent, and not by Baptism as such. In this I know none that agree with you but some few of the Independents in New-England, and some of the Papists. I confess Bellarmine saith, That by Baptism we are virtually obliged to the Pope, being baptized by a Ministry, and into a Church, of which he is the Head. But the contrary is proved,
IX. Baptism, as such, entereth not the Baptized into any particular Church, but only into the Vniversal, headed by Christ; yet a man may at the same time; be entered into the Vniversal, and into a particular Church, but that is by a double consent, and not by Baptism as such. In this I know none that agree with you but some few of the Independents in New-England, and some of the Papists. I confess Bellarmine saith, That by Baptism we are virtually obliged to the Pope, being baptized by a Ministry, and into a Church, of which he is the Head. But the contrary is proved,
1. From the express form of the Baptismal Covenant, which only tieth us to Christ and his Universal Church, and maketh us Christians. But to be a Christian dedicated to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is one thing, and to be a part of the Pastoral Charge of A. B. or N. N. is another thing.
1. From the express form of the Baptismal Covenant, which only tyeth us to Christ and his Universal Church, and maketh us Christians. But to be a Christian dedicated to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is one thing, and to be a part of the Pastoral Charge of A. B. or N. N. is another thing.