A26947:1469
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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1. Christ hath made us Laws already sufficient for salvation. And I hope he hath not constituted so loose a Society, and left his Body to such mutations, as that they must so frequently have new Laws. And if it must, sure it must be from their Sovereign, who hath reserved the Legislative Power to himself as his Prerogative. Legislation is the highest act of Supremacy, and chief flower in the Crown of Sovereignty. The Church is Christs subjects, and shall subjects make their own Laws? Scripture is sufficient. If this be all that we need General Councils for, to make Universal Laws to the Church, we can spare them as well as Traitors in a Common-wealth.
1. Christ hath made us Laws already sufficient for salvation. And I hope he hath not constituted so loose a Society, and left his Body to such mutations, as that they must so frequently have new Laws. And if it must, sure it must be from their Soveraign, who hath reserved the Legislative Power to himself as his Prerogative. Legislation is the highest act of Supremacy, and chief flower in the Crown of Soveraignty. The Church is Christs subjects, and shall subjects make their own Laws? Scripture is sufficient. If this be all that we need General Councils for, to make Universal Laws to the Church, we can spare them as well as Traytors in a Common-wealth.
And for Execution of Laws, it is either Magisterial, by force of the Sword; and this they have nothing to do with, it being the Princes right. Or it is for the Excommunicating Church offenders: And to cast them out of particular Churches is the work of the Pastors of those Churches. Others cannot know the persons, and hear the cause. If all Church causes should come to a General Council, Millions of men must be attending them at once.
And for Execution of Laws, it is either Magisterial, by force of the Sword; and this they have nothing to do with, it being the Princes right. Or it is for the Excommunicating Church offenders: And to cast them out of particular Churches is the work of the Pastors of those Churches. Others cannot know the persons, and hear the cause. If all Churchcauses should come to a General Council, Millions of men must be attending them at once.