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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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But if you say that it must be done by the consent of the Bishops themselves, the Impossibility (moral) is apparent, who will ⟨p. 423⟩be found that will be at the cost and pains to agitate the business among them? No one can appoint the time and place but by consent of the rest. Who doth it belong to, to travail to the Indies, Ethiopia, Egypt, Palestine, and all the rest of the world, to treat with the Bishops about the time and place of a Council? And how many lives must he have that shall do it? And when he findeth them of a hundred minds, what course shall he take, and how many more journeys about the world must he make, to bring them to an agreement? But I am ashamed to bestow more words on so evident a case.
But if you say that it must be done by the consent of the Bishops themselves, the Impossibility (moral) is apparent, who will ⟨p. 423⟩be found that will be at the cost and pains to agitate the business among them? No one can appoint the time and place but by consent of the rest. Who doth it belong to, to travail to the Indies, Aethiopia, Aegypt, Palestine, and all the rest of the world, to treate with the Bishops about the time and place of a Council? And how many lives must he have that shall do it? And when he findeth them of a hundred minds, what course shall he take, and how many more journies about the world must he make, to bring them to an agreement? But I am ashamed to bestow more words on so evident a case.
Argum. 6. The Head or Sovereign of the Church (as of every body Politic) hath the Legislative Power over the whole. The Pope or a General Council have not the Legislative Power over the whole. Therefore the Pope or General Council are not the head or Sovereigns of the Church.
Argum. 6. The Head or Soveraign of the Church (as of every body Politick) hath the Legislative Power over the whole. The Pope or a General Council have not the Legislative Power over the whole. Therefore the Pope or General Council are not the head or Soveraigns of the Church.