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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 2
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Prop. 5. We are also Agreed that this One Visible Catholic Church, is One Political Holy Society, as united in Jesus Christ the Head, who teacheth and ruleth it by his Ministers and other Officers, in the several parts, according to the necessity of each. We call it One Political Society, 1. Principally because that all the Church is united in this One Sovereign, or Head, the Lord Jesus: and therefore it is called his body. 2. They have all the same holy doctrine of faith, and Law to live by, and be judged by. 3. They have all Church Officers of the same sort under Christ to teach and govern them. 4. They have all the same kind of Holy Ordinances, as Reading, Preaching, Praying, Praise, Sacraments, &c. appointed them by the Lord. 5. They are all engaged in One and the same Holy Covenant to the Lord: More might be mentioned (and shall be God willing, in a peculiar Treatise of Catholicism, or the Catholic Church) And though Christ himself be not now seen among us, yet may he truly be called a Visible Head. For 1. He sometime lived visibly on earth. 2. And is now the Visible King of all the Church, as he is in the Heavens. Though we see him not, the Celestial Inhabitants do. It is but little of the world that seeth the Pope, any more then they see Christ: If one unseen to us may be a pretended Visible Head, the other may be truly so. So that the Body, Head, Laws, Worship, &c. being Visible, so is the Policy.
Prop. 5. We are also Agreed that this One Visible Catholick Church, is One Political Holy Society, as united in Jesus Christ the Head, who teacheth and ruleth it by his Ministers and other Officers, in the several parts, according to the necessity of each. We call it One Political Society, 1. Principally because that all the Church is united in this One Soveraign, or Head, the Lord Jesus: and therefore it is called his body. 2. They have all the same holy doctrine of faith, and Law to live by, and be judged by. 3. They have all Church Officers of the same sort under Christ to teach and govern them. 4. They have all the same kind of Holy Ordinances, as Reading, Preaching, Praying, Praise, Sacraments, &c. appointed them by the Lord. 5. They are all engaged in One and the same Holy Covenant to the Lord: More might be mentioned (and shall be God willing, in a peculiar Treatise of Catholicism, or the Catholick Church) And though Christ himself be not now seen among us, yet may he truly be called a Visible Head. For 1. He sometime lived visibly on earth. 2. And is now the Visible King of all the Church, as he is in the Heavens. Though we see him not, the Celestiall Inhabitants do. It is but little of the world that seeth the Pope, any more then they see Christ: If one unseen to us may be a pretended Visible Head, the other may be truly so. So that the Body, Head, Laws, Worship, &c. being Visible, so is the Policy.