A26947:1112
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.
Next Boverius comes to his proofs from the New-Testament. And those are the same that I have answered (as Bellarmines) ⟨p. 302⟩in my [Safe Religion] and are an hundred times answered by our writers, and therefore the Reader may excuse me, if I put him to no long trouble about them.
The first is the old [Tues Petrus, & in hanc Petram, &c.] Answ. 1. He doth not say [Thou art Christ, or the Vice-christ, or my Successor, or the Universal Monarch of the Church: No such words as these. 2. It is Christ himself her that is called the Rock, and not Peter. q. d. [Thy name is Peter who confessest me, in allusion to which I tell thee, that I whom thou hast confessed am Petra, the Rock upon which I will build me a Church, which the gates of Hell shall not prevail against.] As the Apostle saith of the spiritual Rock, 1 Cor. 10. That Rock was Christ.] So may I of this.
3. But if it had been spoken of Peter, it had been no more then is spoken of the other Apostles, on whom as on a Foundation the Church is said to be built, Jesus Christ himself being the head corner stone, Eph. 2. 20.