A26947:1105
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.
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.
The next is in Hosea 1. which speaketh of the return of the Israelites from Captivity. Let the Reader make his best on it for the Pope, for I think it not worth my labour to confute the Papists impudent perverting such Texts as these.
By the way he tells us (as Card. Richelieu and the rest commonly do) that [its no dishonour to Christ to have a Deputy, no more then for the King of England to have a Deputy, or Vice-king in Ireland.] Answ. 1. But our first question is, Whether de facto such a thing be? Prove that Christ hath Commissioned a Vice-christ, and we will not presume to say that he hath dishonoured himself.
By the way he tells us (as Card. Richlieu and the rest commonly do) that [its no dishonour to Christ to have a Deputy, no more then for the King of England to have a Deputy, or Vice-king in Ireland.] Answ. 1. But our first question is, Whether de facto such a thing be? Prove that Christ hath Commissioned a Vice-christ, and we will not presume to say that he hath dishonoured himself.