A26947:1384
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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1. If men mistake about the Nature of the visible form of the Catholic Church, and its unity, it is like to pervert their judgements in many other weighty points of Religion. For when they have received this Error as a Truth, then they will be exceedingly inclined to bend the rest of their opinions to it, and contrive them into a Consistent Form. For Truth would to Truth, as Fire would to Fire, and Water to Water. Yea all that is flexible within them shall be bended to the interest of this conceit.
1. If men mistake about the Nature of the visible form of the Catholick Church, and its unity, it is like to pervert their judgements in many other weighty points of Religion. For when they have received this Error as a Truth, then they will be exceedingly inclined to bend the rest of their opinions to it, and contrive them into a Consistent Form. For Truth would to Truth, as Fire would to Fire, and Water to Water. Yea all that is flexible within them shall be bended to the interest of this conceit.
2. As soon as ever any man hath received this opinion of the necessity of an Universal Visible Head, or common Government of the whole Chruch, he is either a Papist, or of an opinion equivalent in folly, tyranny, and impiety, to Popery. For if such a Visible Head must be, there is no other that can pretend to it with Reason or Honesty any more then the Pope: Nor is it our quarrel against Rome, that their Bishop rather then another should be this usurping Head, but that they would have such a one at all! It is not who shall be the man, or power, but whether there shall be any such man or power that we dispute. This Error about the Necessity of an Universal Visible Head, is the very thing that turneth most to Popery, and this is the common argument that is managed by deceivers to that end, as their writings commonly declare.
2. As soon as ever any man hath received this opinion of the necessity of an Universal Visible Head, or common Government of the whole Chruch, he is either a Papist, or of an opinion equivalent in folly, tyrannie, and impiety, to Popery. For if such a Visible Head must be, there is no other that can pretend to it with Reason or Honesty any more then the Pope: Nor is it our quarrel against Rome, that their Bishop rather then another should be this usurping Head, but that they would have such a one at all! It is not who shall be the man, or power, but whether there shall be any such man or power that we dispute. This Error about the Necessity of an Universal Visible Head, is the very thing that turneth most to Popery, and this is the common argument that is mannaged by deceivers to that end, as their writings commonly declare.