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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. 7. All the inferior officers do derive their power from the supreme. All the other officers of the Catholic Church do not derive their power from the Pope or a General Council: therefore a Pope or General Council are not the supreme.
Argum. 7. All the inferior officers do derive their power from the supream. All the other officers of the Catholick Church do not derive their power from the Pope or a General Council: therefore a Pope or General Council are not the supream.
The Major is an unquestioned Maxim in Politics. Its essential to the Sovereign to be the fountain of power to all under him. Yea if it be but a deputed derived Soveraignty, secundum quid so called, as the Viceroy of Mexico, Naples, &c. yet so far he must be the fountain of all inferior power.
The Major is an unquestioned Maxime in Politicks. Its essential to the Sovereaign to be the fountain of power to all under him. Yea if it be but a deputed derived Soveraignty, secundum quid so called, as the Viceroy of Mexico, Naples, &c. yet so far he must be the fountain of all inferiour power.
The Minor is maintained by most Christians in the world. Every Bishop or Presbyter hath his power immediately from Jesus Christ as the Efficient cause, though man must be an occasion, or causa sine qua non, or per accidens. The Italian Bishops in the Council of Trent could not carry it against the Spaniards, that the Pope only as Head was immediately jure divino, and the rest but mediante Papa.