A26947:1489
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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Argum. 4. As the Synod it self is impossible, needless, and unjust; so it is Impossible that they should do the work of a Head or Sovereign Power, if they could Assemble: therefore they are not appointed thereunto.
Argum. 4. As the Synod it self is impossible, needless, and unjust; so it is Impossible that they should do the work of a Head or Soveraign Power, if they could Assemble: therefore they are not appointed thereunto.
The Antecedent is partly manifest by what is said from their different languages and other considerations. Moreover 1. The persons that will have appeals to them, and causes to be judged (if really they will do the work of a Sovereign Power and Judge) will be so many millions, that there will be no room for them about their doors, nor any leisure in many years to hear their 1causes. If you say, It was not so in former Councils, I answer, that is because they were not truly General, or were called in such times when the Church did lie in a narrow compass, and not in such remote parts of the world; and because they were assembled indeed but occasionally, to advise upon and determine some one particular mans case, or few, and never took upon them to be the Sovereign power or head of the Church, or its essential form or Centre of Unity. 2. These millions of persons that have so many causes, will have so far to travail, that it will put them to great cost and labour to come and attend and bring all their witnesses. And if they be not sounder bodied then our English Soldiers, the poor people of Mexico and other parts of those Indies (to look no further) will be a great part of them dead by the way before they can reach the General Council. e. g. if it should be in the midst of Europe. 3. And the Council will not be competent Judges of so many causes which by distance must needs be much unknown in many weighty Circumstances, whose cognisance is necessary. 4. And lastly, such Councils will sit so seldom, that the work will be undone.
The Antecedent is partly manifest by what is said from their different languages and other considerations. Moreover 1. The persons that will have appeals to them, and causes to be judged (if really they will do the work of a Soveraign Power and Judge) will be so many millions, that there will be no room for them about their doors, nor any leisure in many years to hear their