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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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Pag. 144. Boverius plays his game with Metaphors and Similitudes, ⟨p. 303⟩and saith [The Church is Christs Kingdom, an Army, a Sheepfold, a House, a Ship, or Noah's Ark; and whats a Kingdom without a visible King: or an Army without a Visible General: or a Flock without a visible Shepherd: or a House without a Householder: or a Ship without a Pilot?] Answ. 1. The whole earth is Gods Kingdom! And can he not Govern it without a Visible Monarch? Why then did the world never hear of such a man? Yea the whole world is the Kingdom of Christ himself, though not in that special sort as his Church is: For all Power in heaven and earth is given him, Mat. 28. 18, 19. and for that end he Dyed, Rose and Revived, that he might be Lord of the Dead and Living, Rom. 14. 9. and he is made Head over all things to the Chruch, Eph. 1. 22, 23. And hath this Kingdom an Universal Visible Monarch? Yes: the Pope is the man: Long hath he laid claim to it. Princes, you see whose hands your Crowns and Kingdoms are in: Deceive not your selves, they are the Popes: For certainly they are all Christs; and if he be to be believed, he is the Vice-christ, and so succeedeth him in the Monarchy of the world. But then why doth not this simple Pope lay claim to the Empire of Indostan, and Tartary, and China, and Constantinople, as well as of these smaller Kingdoms of Europe?
Pag. 144. Boverius playes his game with Metaphors and Similitudes, ⟨p. 303⟩and saith [The Church is Christs Kingdom, an Army, a Sheepfold, a House, a Ship, or Noahs Ark; and whats a Kingdom without a visible King: or an Army without a Visible General: or a Flock without a visible Shepheard: or a House without a Housholder: or a Ship without a Pilot?] Answ. 1. The whole earth is Gods Kingdom! And can he not Govern it without a Visible Monarch? Why then did the world never hear of such a man? Yea the whole world is the Kingdom of Christ himself, though not in that special sort as his Church is: For all Power in heaven and earth is given him,