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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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Dedication: To the Reverend, and my much Honoured Brother, Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pa…
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But. Sir, if such as these be thrust upon us, must we own them for our Ministers? What, Sir, will you deny the peoples power of Election, ⟨image 6⟩which the Papists grant the people had till Charles the Great, or till Lewis his Son, about 830 years? See, I pray, Pamelius his Annotations upon these words of Cyprian, Epist. 68. Quando ipsa (plebs) maxime habeat potestatem vel eligendi dignos sacerdotes, vel indignos recusandi. How could a man write plainer for the peoples power of Election? But our Protestants tell us, that only from the time of Frederick the second, who died Ann. 1250, or there about, were the people excluded from the power of choosing Pastors, and it was the deed of Gregory the ninth, as Krantzius reporteth.
But. Sir, if such as these be thrust upon us, must we own them for our Ministers? What, Sir, will you deny the peoples power of Election, ⟨image 6⟩which the Papists grant the people had till Charles the Great, or till Lewis his Son, about 830 years? See, I pray, Pamelius his Annotations upon these words of Cyprian, Epist. 68. Quando ipsa (plebs) maxime habeat potestatem vel eligendi dignos sacerdotes, vel indignos recusandi. How could a man write plainer for the peoples power of Election? But our Protestants tell us, that only from the time of Frederick the second, who died Ann. 1250, or there about, were the people excluded from the power of chusing Pastors, and it was the deed of Gregory the ninth, as Krantzius reporteth.
7. That Church did believe and prove the Pope, &c. to be the Antichrist, Rome-christian to be the Whore, Apoc. 17. thus the Bishops, and our Professors of Divinity, &c. but I can meet but with very few of this Church of that opinion. Dr. Hammond the Oracle of this new Edition of the Clergy, cannot find him in the