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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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Moreover it is easy to prove out of Scripture that God never set up any Sovereign power in his Church (personal or collective) to be the fountain of all other Church power, nor sendeth us to have recourse to any such for it. Nor can they prove such a power, on whom it is incumbent.
Moreover it is easie to prove out of Scripture that God never set up any Soveraign power in his Church (personal or collective) to be the fountain of all other Church power, nor sendeth us to have recourse to any such for it. Nor can they prove such a power, on whom it is incumbent.
And lastly its most easy to prove de facto, that the Bishops or Presbyters now in the several Churches in the world, did not receive, and do not hold their power from any such visible Head, whether Pope or Council. Though the Popelings do, yet so do not all the rest of the Christian world. Who are not therefore no Ministers or no Church of Christ, whatever these bare affirmers and pretenders may imagine: Nor are all the Ministerial actions in the world null, which are not done by a power from him. And even the Papists themselves will few of them pretend to receive their several powers of Priesthood from a General Council. This therefore is not the Sovereign power, or head of the Church.
And lastly its most easie to prove de facto, that the Bishops or Presbyters now in the several Churches in the world, did not receive, and do not hold their power from any such visible Head, whether Pope or Council. Though the Popelings do, yet so do not all the rest of the Christian world. Who are not therefore no Ministers or no Church of Christ, whatever these bare affirmers and pretenders may imagine: Nor are all the Ministerial actions in the world null, which are not done by a power from him. And even the Papists themselves will few of them pretend to receive their several powers of Priesthood from a General Council. This therefore is not the Soveraign power, or head of the Church.