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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. Who chose and called them to it?
5. Whether their Commands be not null, as contrary to Gods?
6▪ How far Communion with them that silence hundreds of faithful Ministers, and set up in their stead— &c. is lawful? Many such questions the people are not so easily satisfied in, as you are.
XI. And the three last all set together, look with an ill design: The Preface to Dr. Rich. Cousins Tables, tells the King, That the Church-Government here is the Kings, or derived from him, and dependant on him; and Grotius de Imperio sum▪ potest. proveth at large the Power of Kings circa sacra, as doth Spalatensis, and many more; and that Canons are but good counsel, till the King make them Laws. And we know no Law-makers but the King and Parliament. But if the Church be the Expounders of the Liturgy, Rubric and Canons, Articles and Acts of Uniformity, and out