A26947:1095
A key for Catholics, to open the juggling of the Jesuits, and satisfy all…A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all…
A key for Catholics, to open the juggling of the Jesuits, and satisfy all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of the Roman or reformed churches be of God ... containing some arguments by which the meanest may see the vanity of popery, and 40 detections of their fraud, with directions, and materials sufficient for the confutation of their voluminous deceits ... : the second part showeth (especially against the French and Grotians) that the Catholic Church is not united in any merely humane head, either Pope or council / by Richard Baxter, a Catholic Christian and Pastor of a church ...A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of the Roman or reformed churches be of God ... containing some arguments by which the meanest may see the vanity of popery, and 40 detections of their fraud, with directions, and materials sufficient for the confutation of their voluminous deceits ... : the second part sheweth (especially against the French and Grotians) that the Catholick Church is not united in any meerly humane head, either Pope or council / by Richard Baxter, a Catholick Christian and Pastor of a church ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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His next Reason is, [Because Christ was a visible Monarch once on earth himself. And if the Church had need of a visible Monarch then, it hath need of it still.] Answ. 1. Here the Reader may see, that it is to no less then to be Christs successor, or a Vice-christ, that the Pope pretendeth. And then the Reason, if it were of any worth, would as well prove, that there ⟨p. 298⟩must be one on earth still that may give the Holy Ghost immediately, and make Articles of Faith de novo, and Laws for the Church (with promise of Salvation) and may appoint new Offices and orders in the whole Church, &c. And why not one also to live without sin, and to die for our sins, and rise again, and be our Saviour? And why not one to give us his own body and blood in the Sacrament?
2. Christ himself doth oppose himself to all terrestrial inhabitants, saying, [One is your Master, even Christ.] And what then? why [Be not ye called Masters? But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.] And [Be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are Brethren,] Mat. 23. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12. where most evidently he shows that neither Peter, or any of his own Disciples were to be called Masters, as Christ was, nor was any such to be on earth, and so no Vice-christ; yea that all his Apostles being Brethren, were not to be Masters one to another, but servants: so that here is a plain bar put in against any of Peters Mastership or Headship of the Universal Church.
2. Christ himself doth oppose himself to all terrestrial inhabitans, saying, [One is your Master, even Christ.] And what then? why [Be not ye called Masters? But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.] And [Be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are Brethren,] Mat. 23. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12. where most evidently he shews that neither Peter, or any of his own Disciples were to be called Masters, as Christ was, nor was any such to be on earth, and so no Vice-christ; yea that all his Apostles being Brethren, were not to be Masters one to another, but servants: so that here is a plain bar put in against any of Peters Mastership or Headship of the Universal Church.