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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 2: His Schiswatical Church destroying Scheme Confuted.
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The participation in these external solemnities, with any legal validity, is only to be had in the external Communion of the visible Church, Chap. VIII. B. (II.) That this visible Church, to whose external Communion these ordinary means of salvation are confined, is no other than the Episcopal Communion of the place where ⟨p. 14⟩any one lives, whilst he lives there. This proved in Two parts. a (1.) That the visible Church, to whose external Communion these ordinary means of salvation are confined, is the Episcopal Communion. This proved by these degrees. (A.) 1. That salvation is not ordinarily to be expected without an external participation of the Sacraments. ⟨p. 15⟩1. Negatively, Not by those other popular means, which ordinary persons are apt to trust in, to the neglect of the Sacraments; that is, 1. Not by hearing the Word Preached, Chap. IX. 2. Not by private Prayer, nor indeed by any out of the Communion of the Church, Chap. X, XI, XII, XIII. XIV. 2. Positively, That salvation is ordinarily to be expected only by this external participation of the Sacraments. 1. Proved concerning Baptism, Chap. XV. ⟨p. 16⟩2. Concerning the Lords Supper, Chap. XVI, XVII. II. That the validity of the Sacraments depends on the Authority of the persons by whom they are administered, Chap. XVIII. III. No other Ministers have the Authority of Administering the Sacraments, but only they who receive their Orders in Episcopal Communion. ⟨p. 17⟩This proved by Four degrees. 1. That the Authority of Administering the Sacraments must be derived from God, Chap. XIX. 2. That though it be derived from God, yet it is not so derived without the mediation of those men to whom it was at first committed, Chap. XX. 3. That it cannot be so derived from those men to whom it was first committed, without a continued succession of persons, orderly receiving Authority ⟨p. 18⟩from those who had Authority to give it them from those first times of the Apostles to ours at present, Chap. XXI. 4. That this Authority is not now to be expected any where but in the Episcopal Communion, Chap. XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV.