Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

MR. Dodwell having written a copious Discourse, asserting, that we have no right to salvation, but by Gods Covenant validly sealed by the Sacrament; and that the Sacrament is not valid, unless delivered by one that hath Ordination by such a Bishop as hath his Ordination by another Bishop, and so on by an uninterrupted succession from the Apostles, with much more such Schismatical stuff, which I fully confuted in my Books called, [The true and only terms of the Concord of all the Christian Churches] and I aggravated his Schismatical condemnation of the Reformed Churches, and most others (as having no true Ministry, Sacraments, nor Covenant-title to salvation, and as sinning against the Holy Ghost, because he professeth himself a Protestant: The said Mr. Dodwell saith, that these words would persuade men that I take him for a Papist, and expecteth that I therein right him: Be it therefore known to all men, that I never meant by that word to accuse Mr. Dodwell of being a Papist, but to aggravate his abuse of Protestants; and that I take my self bound to charge no man to be of a Religion which he denieth: And what his Religion really is, his Books may best inform him that would know.

MR. Dodwell having written a copious Discourse, asserting, that we have no right to salvation, but by Gods Covenant validly sealed by the Sacrament; and that the Sacrament is not valid, unless delivered by one that hath Ordination by such a Bishop as hath his Ordination by another Bishop, and so on by an uninterrupted succession from the Apostles, with much more such Schismatical stuff, which I fully confuted in my Books called, [The true and only terms of the Concord of all the Christian Churches] and I aggravated his Schismatical condemnation of the Reformed Churches, and most others (as having no true Ministry, Sacraments, nor Covenant-title to salvation, and as sinning against the Holy Ghost, because he professeth himself a Protestant: The said Mr. Dodwell saith, that these words would perswade men that I take him for a Papist, and expecteth that I therein right him: Be it therefore known to all men, that I never meant by that word to accuse Mr. Dodwell of being a Papist, but to aggravate his abuse of Protestants; and that I take my self bound to charge no man to be of a Religion which he denieth: And what his Religion really is, his Books may best inform him that would know.