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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
Quest. Whether the way to heal any Divisions in the Churches of Chr… › Chapter 1
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I HAVE already in the first Part of this Book (and formerly in another) disproved the Popes Universal Headship, and answered what Bellarmine, Boverius, and some others say for the maintaining of it: And it is a work already done so fully by Chamier, Whitaker, and many others, but most triumphantly and copiously by David Blondel in a French Treatise in Folio de primatu in Ecclesia against Cardinal ⟨p. 380⟩Perron, that I need not, and therefore intend not to say much here upon that subject. But this Disputation I principally intend, 1. For the subverting of the Foundation of Popery, which is the supposition, that the Visible Catholic Church must needs be united in some Humane Visible Head. 2. To confute the Opinion of the moderate sort of French Papists and Grotians, that take a General Council to be the Legislative Head, and the Judicial Head while they are in Being; and the Pope ruling by the Laws of Councils, to be the ordinary Judicial Head. 3. To deliver some persons from a dangerous Temptation, that by Grotius, or his followers here in England are drawn into a conceit that the Catholic Church is such a Body as we here deny, and think that the unity that the Scripture so commendeth to us cannot be attained without an Universal Visible Head: which Temptation of theirs is much increased by observing the differences of Opinions in the world; which every good man doth lament, as we do all the sins and frailties that on earth accompany us in the state of imperfection. As I blame not those that desire perfect Knowledge, or Holiness; but blame them that promise it to the Church on Earth, when it is the prerogative of Heaven; and much more should blame him that would say we shall be perfectly Wise and Holy if we will but be of this Opinion, that the Church hath an Infallible Humame Head; even so I blame not them that desire perfect Concord (the Consequent of perfect Knowledge and Holiness;) for this is to desire Heaven: But I blame them that promise us this Heaven on Earth; and them much more that tell us we shall have it if we will but believe that a Pope or Council is the Universal Head; and so will condemn the Church on Earth, because it hath not attained that Celestial perfection, which they have once fancied that it may and should attain.
I HAVE already in the first Part of this Book (and formerly in another) disproved the Popes Universal Headship, and answered what Bellarmine, Boverius, and some others say for the maintaining of it: And it is a work already done so fully by Chamier, Whitaker, and many others, but most triumphantly and copiously by David Blondell in a French Treatise in Folio de primatu in Ecclesia against Cardinal