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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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§. 7. I will reverence the Jews visible Church, to whom were committed the Oracles of God, but will not say, that they ⟨p. 6⟩sinned not in persecuting Christ and his Apostles; nor say, that they are not now under their own curse, and cut off from the Church, who once cast out Christians from their Synagogues. I will give due honour to Primogeniture, and yet not equal Cain and Abel, Ismael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, &c. but expect, that as he that was born after the flesh did persecute him that was born after the spirit; even so it will be now: And the world was the world still, when it was taken into the Church. The Heathen Romans were less Persecutors than the Jews, and so are the Turks than the Papists.
§. 7. I will reverence the Iews visible Church, to whom were committed the Oracles of God, but will not say, that they ⟨p. 6⟩sinned not in persecuting Christ and his Apostles; nor say, that they are not now under their own curse, and cut off from the Church, who once cast out Christians from their Synagogues. I will give due honour to Primogeniture, and yet not equal Cain and Abel, Ismael and Isaac, Esau and Iacob, &c. but expect, that as he that was born after the flesh did persecute him that was born after the spirit; even so it will be now: And the world was the world still, when it was taken into the Church. The Heathen Romans were less Persecutors than the Iews, and so are the Turks than the Papists.
§ 8. I shall, in due place, take notice of Mr. D's confining the Essence of the Ministry to transacting between God and man, in covenanting, requiring essentially no more skill than any man is capable of, who is but capable of understanding the common dealings of the world, p. 73, 74. And that Immoralities of such mens Lives excuse us not from Schism, for turning from such to better Teachers, p. 72. contrary to the Epistle of the Carthage Council, in the case of Martial and Basilides, and even of Popes and Councils, that forbid hearing Mass from a Fornicator. And his denying the scripture to be intended or designed to be a Charter to appeal to for all future generations, and for the extent of Offices, and preventing litigious dispute about government and subjection, p. 80, 81. But that recourse ought now to be had to the intention of the Ordainers for these. And what he saith, p. 81. against appealing to Writings (as he calls them), against the sense of all the visible authority of this life, as unreconcilable to the practice of any visible government on earth, p. 81. And that subjects cannot preserve their subordination to their superiors, if they practice differently, and defend their practices, and pretend Divine Authority for them, where he speaketh indefinitely, and excepteth no practices. And if we may not appeal from man to God and Scripture, we may appeal from Scripture to man. And if mans Law be above Gods, it is not from him; for the inferior maketh not his superior.