A26947:1109
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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3. Though we should not have presumed to question Christ if he had done it, yet we must presume to tell the Pope that he is guilty of dishonouring Christ by his usurpation. 1. Because he sets up himself as Vice christ, without his Commission; and takes that to himself, that is, Christs Prerogative. God saith, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased, Hear him] And the Papists say of the Pope, This is the Vice-christ, Hear him] 2. Because the Power of a King is more communicable, then the Power of Christ, it being such as is fit for one mere man as well as for another. But the Power of Christ is such as no mere man is fit for. The capacity of the Subject is Considerable as Necessary to the reception of the form of Power. He that is God as well as Man is fit for an Universal Monarchy, when he that is mere man is not. From whence we argue thus.
3. Though we should not have presumed to question Christ if he had done it, yet we must presume to tell the Pope that he is guilty of dishonouring Christ by his usurpation. 1. Because he sets up himself as Vice christ, without his Commission; and takes that to himself, that is, Christs Prerogative. God saith, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased, Hear him] And the Papists say of the Pope, This is the Vice-christ, Hear him] 2. Because the Power of a King is more communicable, then the Power of Christ, it being such as is fit for one meer man as well as for another. But the Power of Christ is such as no meer man is fit for. The capacity of the Subject is Considerable as Necessary to the reception of the form of Power. He that is God as well as Man is fit for an Universal Monarchy, when he that is meer man is not. From whence we argue thus.
If there was never such a thing by Gods institution as a mere man to be the Christ or Universal Head of the Church, then there is no such thing to be imagined now: But there never was such a thing: Therefore there is no such— ⟨p. 301⟩Christ that was the visible Head was God and Man: when the Pope is so, we will believe in him as his Successor.