A26947:1103
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9. And yet if the Pope would usurp no more Power then Christ exercised visibly on earth, it would not be all so bad as it is or hath been. He would not then divide inheritances, nor be a temporal Prince, nor wear a Triple Crown, nor keep so glorious a Court and Retinue, nor depose Princes, nor deny them tribute, nor exempt his Prelates from it, nor from their judgement Seats, nor absolve their Subjects from their fidelity, &c. nor trouble the world as now he doth: He would not exercise the power of putting any to death: much less would he set up Inquisitions, to burn poor people for reading the Scriptures, or no being of his mind.
Pag. 133. He makes Christ the visible Pope while he was on earth, and tells us that Promulgating the Gospel, sending Apostles, instituting Sacraments, &c. were Pontificalia munera, Papal Offices. Answ. And indeed was Christ a Pope? and is the Pope a Christ? Jesus I know, and Peter and Paul I know: but this Vice-christ I know not. If indeed the Vice-christ have power to do these Papal works, to promulgate a new Gospel, to send out Apostles, to institute Sacraments, &c. as Christ did, let us but know which be the Popes Sacraments, and which be Christs; which be the Popes Apostles, and which be Christs; and which is the Popes Gospel, and which is Christs, and we shall use them accordingly. The Law and Testimony will help us to distinguish them.
Pag. 134. He comes to prove that Christ hath a Successor: and his first proof is from Mic. 2. Let the Reader peruse it, and ⟨p. 300⟩judge without any help of mine, what proof there is that the Pope is a Vice-christ.