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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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3. May not men be baptized in Turkey, or among other Infidels, or Indians, where there is no Church? And is the first baptized man among them, a Church himself? Paul thanketh God that he baptized no more of the Corinthians, lest they should think that he baptized into his own name. And doth every Baptizer baptize to himself, or to his Bishop? A man may baptize out of all Dioceses, or in another's.
3. May not men be baptized in Turkey, or among other Infidels, or Indians, where there is no Church? And is the first baptized man among them, a Church himself? Paul thanketh God that he baptized no more of the Corinthians, lest they should think that he baptized into his own name. And doth every Baptizer baptize to himself, or to his Bishop? A man may baptize out of all Diocesses, or in another's.
X. As to your next Assertion, I grant, that when a Bishop or a beggar speaketh the Commands of God, and a King speaketh against it, we must follow that Bishop or beggar, rather than the King, because this is but obeying God before men. But supposing that it is a thing indifferent, and but circa sacra, and not a proper part of the Agent Pastors Office, I confess to you, I will obey the King before the Bishop.
1. Because it is a thing that is under the Power of the King to command; and if so, the King is the Supreme, and not the Bishop.