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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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4. And when God preserved, by an humble Ministry, so many Christians, as the Albigenses, Waldenses, and many among the Papists themselves, from the liking and guilt of the Roman corruptions.
5. And when God hath raised so learned, humble, and holy a Ministry to reform the Churches, and blest their labours in Europe, and specially in England, as he hath done; even those that Mr. Dodwell degradeth; yea, many pious Diocesans here and elsewhere, who yet cannot prove their title by his pretended way of successive Canonical Ordinations; nor durst have sworn that they had such a call.
§. 6. I am sure that the work of Christ is the restoring of Gods Image, holy life, and light, and love; and that the destroying of these, by hiding the Scriptures, unintelligible worships, Imagery, dead hypocrisy, silencing, and persecuting, and killing Gods servants, making dividing engines to tear, and Canons to batter the peace of the Church, and this by an ignorant, ungodly, worldly Ministry, seeking not the things of God, but of men; all this is the Devils work; and to do the Devils work against Christ, is not a sign of Christs servants; he bids us judg of our selves and others by the fruits; His servants we are whom we obey: If a Peter once give Christ such worldly fleshly counsel, he shall hear worse than I said of Church-Tyrants, get thee behind me Satan, thou art an offence unto me; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men, Mat. 16.22 hating the good, silencing thousands of faithful Ministers, excommunicating, and sinning against God, in obedience to Prelates, and for using the needful means of their own salvation, and serving God but as Peter and Paul did; this is the Devils work, if he have any in the world. And Mr. Dodwell must trust more to swords than words to keep it up; for there is a spirit in true Christians that will never suffer them to believe that it is pleasing to God, what name soever is pretended for it.