A26860:548
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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In Conclusion, remember I pray you, 1. That it is not the ancient Episcopacy (which was in Cyprian's days; yea, which agreeth with Epiphanius's Intimations, and Petavius excellent Notes thereon, in Haeres. 69.) which I deny. And I conjecture that at this day in England there are more Episcopal than Presbyterian silenced Non-conformists.
In Conclusion, remember I pray you, 1. That it is not the ancient Episcopacy (which was in Cyprians days; yea, which agreeth with Epiphanius's Intimations, and Petavius excellent Notes thereon, in Haeres. 69.) which I deny. And I conjecture that at this day in England there are more Episcopal than Presbyterian silenced Non-conformists.
2. That what sort of Prelacy or higher Rulers I dare not subscribe to, yet I can live quietly and submissively under, though not obey them by sinning against God, or breaking my Vows of Baptism or Ordination, and perfidiously leaving souls to Satan. Nothing more threateneth the subversion of the Church-Government than swearing men to approve of all that's in it. Many can submit and live in peace, that dare not subscribe or swear Approbation. It was the & caet•ra Oath 1640, that constrained me to th•se searches which […] me a Nonconformist. It is an easy ma••er for Overdoers to add but a cla•se or two more to their Oaths and Subscriptions, which shall ma•e almost all the conscionable Ministers of the Kingdom Nonconformists.
2. That what sort of Prelacy or higher Rulers I dare not subscribe to, yet I can live quietly and submissively under, though not obey them by sinning against God, or breaking my Vows of Baptism or Ordination, and perfidiously leaving souls to Satan. Nothing more threateneth the subversion of the Church-Government than swearing men to approve of all th•t's in it. Many can submit and live in peace, that dare not subscribe or swear Approbation. It was the & caetra Oath 1640, that constrained me to thse searches which me a Nonconformist. It is an easie maer for Overdoers to add but a clase or two more to their Oaths and Subscriptions, which shall mae almost all the conscionable Ministers of the Kingdom Nonconformists.