A26947:1126
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.
The fourth Reason is [To fulfil the doctrine of the Prophets and Christ.] Answ. You should have better showed such a doctrine before you had made use of it as a reason.
The fourth Reason is [To fulfill the doctrine of the Prophets and Christ.] Answ. You should have better shewed such a doctrine before you had made use of it as a reason.
The fifth Reason is [That the Christian Church may be like the Jewish] Answ. When the Christian universal Church is no bigger then the Jewish, that one may Govern it as well, we will hearken to you: Let the Pope undertake no larger a Circuit.
The sixth Reason is [That there may be some one Supreme judge to punish Bishops, and define matters of faith, call Councils, extinguish heresies and schisms.] Answ. 1. One Christ is enough for the Catholic Church for all these uses. I find the Articles of saith as well defined by Christ, as by the Vice-christ. I have searched the writings both of Christ and the Vice-christ, and in my poor judgement there is no comparison between them, nor hath the Pope one jot mended the Scripture. 2. And for Heresies and Schisms, Christ hath extinguished many, but ⟨p. 306⟩for ought I see the Pope rather increaseth them. In good sadness, did God send John the twenty second, alias the twenty third, to extinguish Heresies, with all those Abominations and all that Infidelity that was charged on him by a General Council? And was John the thirteenth a Vice christ to extinguish Heresies by all that diabolical villainy that he was deposed for by a Council? 3. And for calling Councils, they have learnt more wit, since Constance and Basil have let them know what Councils mean to do by them. Unless they can pack up forty or fifty (or what if it were an hundred, or two hundred) as they did at Trent, to say their lesson, as it was brought to them from Rome, and to call themselves a General Council for folks to laugh at them. Is this all that we must have a Vice-Christ for? How many General Councils did the Pope call for six hundred years after Christ? Tell us without Lying, and let us see why he was created.