A26947:1470
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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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.
And if it be to judge who shall be cast out of the Communion of the Churches, and what Churches themselves are to ⟨p. 414⟩be excommunicated, the Synods of neighbour Pastors are to do as much of that as is to be done. Where then is the Necessity of such Councils at such rates? Augustine said that drunkenness in his time was grown so strong, that there must be a Council to suppress it. Could they do such feats as to cure Drunkenness, Whoredom, Covetousness, Pride, I would be for them.
3. If a General Council were called, it must be a most unjust Assembly. For, 1. It would be guilty of cruelty and destroying the Church of Christ, by killing so many of the Pastors as aforesaid.