A26947:1360
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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And I showed you partly, and the Canons show you fully, that that Primacy is the Universal Headship, which Protestants (I mean not Roman, Grotian Protestants) have ever ⟨p. 385⟩used to call Popery. But saith Mr. P. Grotius chargeth the Papists with it.] Answ. 1. True! but the Protestants much more, as making many more faults by their withdrawing from Rome then they mended. 2. And he chargeth not that which we have called Popery with it, though he charge the Papists with it. That some sins of the Papists did occasion it, he confesseth, and all the Papists that ever I spoke with of it do confess. But I am referred for these causes charged on the Papists, to Grot. Votum pag. 7, 8. and thither I'll follow Mr. P. that I may know how much he chargeth on the Papists himself. And there I find that the things that Grotius found faulty in the Papists, were but these two. 1. That to the true and ancient doctrine, many quirks of the Schoolmen that were better skilled in Aristotle then the Scriptures, were introduced, out of a liberty of disputing, not out of the Authority of Universal Councils. And the Opinions stablished in the Church were less fitly explicated. 2. That Pride and Covetousness, and manners of ill example prevailed among the Prelates, &c. And really did you think that he is no Papist that is but against the Schoolmens Opinions, and the Prelates Pride, Covetousness, and Idleness? and holdeth all that they call the Decrees of General Councils? Hath not the Council at Lateran and Florence decreed that the Pope is above a General Council? and the Council at Lateran decreed that Princes are to be deposed, and their Subjects absolved from their fidelity, if they exterminate not Heretics (such as Protestants) out of their Dominions? Is he no Papist that holds all that is in the Council of Trent, if he be against some School-points not determined, and against the Prelates Pride? Well Sir, I understand you better then I did: And though you thought meet (that your words might be conform to one another, and not to truth) to say that I called you Arminian and Pelagian, I purpose (if I had done so) to call you an Arminian no more: But I beseech you cry not out of persecution till the men of your mind will give us leave to be Rectors of Churches in their Dominions, as you and others of your mind are allowed to be in these. And demand not of Mr.
And I shewed you partly, and the Canons shew you fully, that that Primacy is the Universall Headship, which Protestants (I mean not Roman, Grotian Protestants) have ever