A26947:1487
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 the other way, 1. A Representative General Council is another thing, quite different from a Real. 2. What word ⟨p. 420⟩of God have they to prove such a Representative Council? Doubtless none: And will they give us a Church form, and centre of Unity, merely of their own brains, upon supposition that it is prudential? 3. Men are of exceeding different degrees of understanding, and of different judgements actually: so that if e. g. England should send one, or two, or ten men to represent the rest to a General Council, its more then possible that they may give their judgements in many points so far contrary to the minds of those that sent them, that twenty or an hundred to one at home may be against them. For we cannot send our understandings and all our reasons with them to the Council when we send them. And so no man can say that any such Council doth express the mind of the greater part of the Church. 4. By this rule you may reduce a General Council to a dozen men, or to the four or five Patriarchs: For all the rest may choose them as their representatives. 5. But its not to be expected that all the Churches should be satisfied of the lawfulness or fitness of such substitutions and representations: And therefore they will not consent or elect men for such a power and work: And who may justly force them?
And for the other way, 1. A Representative General Council is another thing, quite different from a Real. 2. What word ⟨p. 420⟩of God have they to prove such a Representative Council? Doubtless none: And will they give us a Church form, and center of Unity, meerly of their own brains, upon supposition that it is prudential? 3. Men are of exceeding different degrees of understanding, and of different judgements actually: so that if e. g. England should send one, or two, or ten men to represent the rest to a General Council, its more then possible that they may give their judgements in many points so far contrary to the minds of those that sent them, that twenty or an hundred to one at home may be against them. For we cannot send our understandings and all our reasons with them to the Council when we send them. And so no man can say that any such Council doth express the mind of the greater part of the Church. 4. By this rule you may reduce a General Council to a dozen men, or to the four or five Patriarks: For all the rest may choose them as their representatives. 5. But its not to be expected that all the Churches should be satisfied of the lawfulness or fitness of such substitutions and representations: And therefore they will not consent or elect men for such a power and work: And who may justly force them?