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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 1: Mr. DODWEL's LEVIATHAN, or Absolute Destructive Prelacy, the Son of ABADDON APOLLYON, a…
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§. 1. WHEN Mr. Dodwell, in a tedious Volume, did null the Reformed Churches, their Ministry, Sacraments, and Covenant-title to salvation, merely for want of uninterrupted succession down from the Apostles, of Ordination, by such as he appropriateth the name of Bishops to, I aggravated his fault, as being one that professeth himself a Protestant. He took this to be an accusation of Popery: I Published, to satisfy him, that I meant no such thing; but de nomine will call him what he calls himself, and de re will be no judg of any thing but his books and words, to which I leave the Reader to know him: This satisfieth him not, but he continueth so much concerned, that I doubt he will make men think there is some tender place that is so impatient of a mis-supposed touch. I have nothing to do with him, or his Religion, as his, further than he assaulteth us by his Writings: And he is the Accuser, and the Accusation ⟨p. 2⟩is of no less moment than aforesaid, and sinning against the Holy Ghost, and of Schism, and subverting all Government, if we do but practice differently from the Prelates will, and allege Scripture and Gods Authority for it, and appeal to Christ. I am but on the Defence against all this.
§. 1. WHEN Mr. Dodwell, in a tedious Volume, did null the Reformed Churches, their Ministry, Sacraments, and Covenant-title to salvation, meerly for want of uninterrupted succession down from the Apostles, of Ordination, by such as he appropriateth the name of Bishops to, I aggravated his fault, as being one that professeth himself a Protestant. He took this to be an accusation of Popery: I Published, to satisfie him, that I meant no such thing; but de nomine will call him what he calls himself, and de re will be no judg of any thing but his books and words, to which I leave the Reader to know him: This satisfieth him not, but he continueth so much concerned, that I doubt he will make men think there is some tender place that is so impatient of a mis-supposed touch. I have nothing to do with him, or his Religion, as his, further than he assaulteth us by his Writings: And he is the Accuser, and the Accusation ⟨p. 2⟩is of no less moment than aforesaid, and sinning against the Holy Ghost, and of Schism, and subverting all Government, if we do but practice differently from the Prelates will, and alledg Scripture and Gods Authority for it, and appeal to Christ. I am but on the Defence against all this.