A26947:1461
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. Even at home in Europe, the Princes are so commonly in Wars (as are France, Spain, Venice, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, the Emperor, Brandenburg, Holland, Portugal, England, Transylvania, &c. at this very day) that there is not the least probability that they should all or half consent to have so many of their subjects pass into their enemies Countries to reside so long. Jealousies raised by particular Interests would make it Treason.
5. Even at home in Europe, the Princes are so commonly in Wars (as are France, Spain, Venice, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, the Emperor, Brandenburgh, Holland, Portugal, England, Transylvania, &c. at this very day) that there is not the least probability that they should all or half consent to have so many of their subjects pass into their enemies Countries to reside so long. Jealousies raised by particular Interests would make it Treason.
6. Moreover many Princes understand that the Pope hath no power to call such Councils, nor any man else: and they know the design of the Pope to subject the world to himself. And therefore they will abhor that their subjects should travail so far at his call, that hath such designs, (or at another mans that hath no authority to call them.) This hath made the Emperor of Habassia so resolutely resist the Popes pretensions (as Godignus, Maffaeus, and others do declare) Few Princes will endure to have their subjects brought under a foreign Power.
6. Moreover many Princes understand that the Pope hath no power to call such Councils, nor any man else: and they know the design of the Pope to subject the world to himself. And therefore they will abhor that their subjects should travail so far at his call, that hath such designs, (or at another mans that hath no authority to call them.) This hath made the Emperor of Habassia so resolutely resist the Popes pretensions (as Godignus, Maffaeus, and others do declare) Few Princes will endure to have their subjects brought under a forreign Power.