A26947:1441
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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Not in Moral existence; For there is no such thing pretended, nor possible. I confess the Common wealth is not dissolved at the death of the Prince; because a Successor being determined of by Law (as in hereditary Government,) there is one hath presently right to the place, though he want solemn admittance; or if elective, yet Rex non moritur, both because the successor hath an Intentional Moral being in the Fundamental Law, and ⟨p. 406⟩the Intention of the Electors conjunctly, and they presently make an actual choice, or else the power so far as is necessary for execution, falls in the mean time into the hands of some Trustees of the Republic, while they are electing, and the sovereign is in fieri: Or if it be in some dissolvable body, whose actual Session is intermitted, yet they are still in Moral being, and ready to assemble, and the Sovereignty for so much as is of ordinary exercise, even over the Universal body, is in the mean time in the hands of some other Assembly, who therefore may be said to partake of the Sovereignty.
Not in Moral existence; For there is no such thing pretended, nor possible. I confess the Common wealth is not dissolved at the death of the Prince; because a Successor being determined of by Law (as in hereditary Government,) there is one hath presently right to the place, though he want solemn admittance; or if elective, yet Rex non moritur, both because the successor hath an Intentional Moral being in the Fundamental Law, and ⟨p. 406⟩the Intention of the Electors conjunctly, and they presently make an actual choice, or else the power so far as is necessary for execution, falls in the mean time into the hands of some Trustees of the Republick, while they are electing, and the soveraign is in fieri: Or if it be in some dissolvable body, whose actual Session is intermitted, yet they are still in Moral being, and ready to assemble, and the Soveraignty for so much as is of ordinary exercise, even over the Universal body, is in the mean time in the hands of some other Assembly, who therefore may be said to partake of the Soveraignty.