A26947:138
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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But if the temporal Lord, being required and admonished of the Church, shall neglect to purge his Country of heretical defilement, let him by the Metropolitan and other Comprovincial Bishops be tied by the bond of Excommunication. And if he refuse to satisfy within a year, let it be signified to the Pope, that he may from thenceforth denounce ⟨p. 19⟩his Vassals absolved from his fidelity, and may expose his Country to be seized on by Catholics, who rooting out the heretics, may possess it without contradiction, and may keep it in the purity of faith; saving the right of the principal Lord, so be it that he himself do make no hinderance hereabout, and oppose any impediment: and the same Law is to be observed with them that are not principal Lords. And the Catholics that taking the sign of the Cross shall set themselves to the rooting out of the heretics, shall enjoy the same indulgences and holy privileges, which were granted to those that go to the relief of the holy land. Moreover we Decree, that the believers, receivers, defenders, and favourers of Heretics, shall be excommunicate; firmly decreeing, that after any such is noted by excommunication, if he refuse to satisfy within a year, he shall from thence forth be ipso jure infamous, and may not be admitted to public Offices or Councils, or to the choice of such, nor to bear witness. And he shall be intestate and not have power to make a will, nor may come to a Succession of inheritance. And no man shall be forced to answer him in any cause: but he shall be forced to answer others. And if he be a Judge, his sentence shall be invalid, and no causes shall be brought to his hearing. If he be an Advocate, his Plea shall not be admitted. If a Notary (or Register) the Instruments made by him shall be utterly void, and damned with the damned Author. And so in other the like cases, we command that it be observed.] Thus they go on further commanding Bishops by themselves, or their Arch-deacons, or other fit persons, once or twice a year to search every Parish where any Heretic is found to dwell, and put all the Neighbourhood to their Oaths, whether they know of any Heretics there, or any private meetings, or any that in life and manners do differ from the common conversation of the faithful, &c. And the Bishops that neglect these things are to be cast out, and others put into their places that will do them.
But if the temporal Lord, being required and admonished of the Church, shall neglect to purge his Countrey of heretical defilement, let him by the Metropolitan and other Comprovincial Bishops be tyed by the bond of Excommunication. And if he refuse to satisfie within a year, let it be signified to the Pope, that he may from thenceforth denounce