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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 3
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5. It is the the mere effect of pride and tyranny: a plain design ⟨p. 403⟩to set up one man over all the world for his greatness, and their hurt.
5. It is the the meer effect of pride and tyranny: a plain design ⟨p. 403⟩to set up one man over all the world for his greatness, and their hurt.
6. The pretence of this Sovereignty is the consequent only of Romes greatness, and the will of Emperors, that to conform the Ecclesiastical state to the civil, did give a Primacy to the Bishop of Rome within the Empire.
6. The pretense of this Soveraignty is the consequent only of Romes greatness, and the will of Emperours, that to conform the Ecclesiastical state to the civil, did give a Primacy to the Bishop of Rome within the Empire.
7. It is a mere impossibility for one man to be the Sovereign of all the Churches in the world, and do the work of a Sovereign for them. He had need of many millions and millions of Treasure to defray the charge (which Peter had not.) While he pretends to govern all the world, he doth but leave them ungoverned, or not by him. How can he govern all those Churches in the Dominions of Infidels, that will not endure his Government? There are more then all the Papists in the world now from under his Government voluntarily, that could not be governed by him if they would.