A26947:1118
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.
3. And for the Sheepfold of Christ, he ahth appointed particular Shepherds to watch for the several parts of the flock. But if one man were to look to all the sheep in the world, he would make such work as the Pope would do with the sheep of Christ. If you tell us still that Christ is out of sight, I answer, He is even at hand: he is coming: he will not be long: In the mean time it is the duty of every Pastor [to feed the flock of God that is among them—not as Lords over Gods Heritage (as the Vice-christ would be:) and when the chief Shepherd doth appear, we shall receive the Crown,] 1 Pet. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. Peter ⟨p. 304⟩never dreamed, poor man, that he was the chief Shepherd himself.
3. And for the Sheepfold of Christ, he ahth appointed particular Shepheards to watch for the several parts of the flock. But if one man were to look to all the sheep in the world, he would make such work as the Pope would do with the sheep of Christ. If you tell us still that Christ is out of sight, I answer, He is even at hand: he is coming: he will not be long: In the mean time it is the duty of every Pastor [to feed the flock of God that is among them—not as Lords over Gods Heritage (as the Vice-christ would be:) and when the chief Shepheard doth appear, we shall receive the Crown,] 1 Pet. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. Peter ⟨p. 304⟩never dreamed, poor man, that he was the chief Shepheard himself.
4. For the Metaphor of a Family, I answer, That God can Govern all the Families in the world: and when the Pope can do so, then all the world shall acknowledge him the Master of the Family. Till then we have learned that the whole Family of Heaven and Earth is named of God, and of the Redeemer-God-and-Man: but not of the Pope of Rome.