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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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The Major will not be denied. The proof of any branch of the Minor may serve turn: much more of all. 1. That a General Council hath not been this forty years in being, all men will confess. If the Church have been Headless forty years, or wanted any thing Necessary to its Being or Unity, then was it so long no Church, or many Catholic Churches, which are known untruths.
The Major will not be denyed. The proof of any branch of the Minor may serve turn: much more of all. 1. That a General Council hath not been this forty years in being, all men will confess. If the Church have been Headless forty years, or wanted any thing Necessary to its Being or Unity, then was it so long no Church, or many Catholick Churches, which are known untruths.
2. If the Church have had any General Council within this thousand years, it was either that of Trent, that of Canstance, ⟨p. 407⟩Basil, Florence, the Lateran, &c. But none of these were such. For 1. there were no Bishops from the most of the Christian world. I have told you before how few at Trent did the most egregious parts of their work (few more then forty:) The Churches of Syria, Armenia, Ethiopia, and the most of the Christian world, were never so much as fairly invited to be there. If at Florence the Patriarch of Constantinople, and two or three Greeks more were present, what's that to all the Churches of the Greek Profession through the world? besides all others. The ancient Councils called General, contained All the Bishops that could and would come. For all were to be there, and not one Bishop chosen by two hundred, or by a Prince, instead of two hundred. But at these later Councils were neither all, nor so much as any Delegates (though but chosen by hundreds to represent them) from most of the Churches of the world. Besides the packing and fore-resolutions of the Popes, that ruled all, and many other Arguments that nullify these pretended General Councils. I say not that all of them were useless; but none of them were any more like to Ecumenical or Universal, then Italy and its few servants are like to all the Christian world.