A26947:1149
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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5. Yea it seems by this they would make all Translations to be of little use. And a man might lawfully sin in English, because God for bad it only in Hebrew and Greek.
6. If this be the way of it, let us remember that they must in Reason stand to their own Rules. Let them tell us then what Scripture saith, that Peter was the Vicar of Christ, or the Head of the Catholic Church: or the Bishop of Rome, or that the Pope is his Successor, or that the Pope is the Vice-christ, or Universal Bishop. Where is there express Scripture for ⟨p. 310⟩any of this? Yea so much as Bellarmines Literal sense.
6. If this be the way of it, let us remember that they must in Reason stand to their own Rules. Let them tell us then what Scripture saith, that Peter was the Vicar of Christ, or the Head of the Catholick Church: or the Bishop of Rome, or that the Pope is his Successor, or that the Pope is the Vice-christ, or Universal Bishop. Where is there express Scripture for ⟨p. 310⟩any of this? Yea so much as Bellarmines Literal sense.
7. And why do not these blind and partial men see, that the same course also must be taken with their own Laws? And that all their Decretals and Canons are insufficient, according to these Rules. It's easy for any Heretic to form up his Error into other words then those condemned by Pope or Council: And if you go again to the Pope, and get him to condemn those new expressions, the men in Mexico may use them long to the detriment of the souls of men, before the damnatory sentence be brought to them. And when it comes, they can again word their Heresy anew. The Jansenists in France show how well the Popes decision of wordy Controversies is understood, and doth avail. But really if they will hold that no part of the Popes Laws oblige but in the literal sense, or that none offend that violate not the Letter, they will make a great alteration in their affairs. And perphaps any of their subjects may Blaspheme the Pope himself in French, Dutch, Irish, English, Slavonian, &c. because he forbids it only in Latin; For if Translations be not Gods Word, then they are not the Popes word neither. A pretty crochet for a Jesuit. It is mendacium, and not a Lye, that the Pope forbids. It is said that a Traitor or Murderer may be hanged: but it is not said that such or such a man shall be hanged; or that he was a traitor or murderer.