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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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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.
The Major is of unquestionable verity in Politics. Legislation is the first and chief work of Sovereignty.
The Major is of unquestionable verity in Politicks. Legislation is the first and chief work of Soveraignty.
The Minor is proved, 1. Ad hominem by the confession of the 1chief Opponents, Grotius de Imperio summar. potest. doth purposely maintain it: and so do others: (See of this Lud. Molinaeus new Book supposed against the Presbyterians: his Paraenesis.) 2. It is the high Prerogative of Christ the true King and Sovereign of the Church, which none must arrogate. He was faithful in all his house as was Moses. His Law is perfect: It is sufficient to make the man of God perfect: even a sufficient rule of faith and life: No man must add thereto, nor take ought therefrom, but do whatsoever he hath commanded, Deut. 12. 32. To the Law and to the Testimony: if they speak not according to these, it is because there is no light in them,