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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. 8. The Head or Sovereign Power hath the finally decisive Judgement, and in great causes all must, or may appeal to ⟨p. 426⟩them. A General Council hath not the finally decisive judgement, nor may all men in great causes appeal to them. Therefore a General Council is not the Head or Sovereign power.
Argum. 8. The Head or Soveraign Power hath the finally decisive Judgement, and in great causes all must, or may appeal to ⟨p. 426⟩them. A General Council hath not the finally decisive judgement, nor may all men in great causes appeal to them. Therefore a General Council is not the Head or Soveraign power.
The Major is undeniable. The Minor is proved, 1. In that it is not known, nor hath the world any rule or way to know in what cases we must appeal to a General Council, and what not; and what is their proper work. 2. In that an appeal to them is an absolute evasion of the guilty, and in vain to the innocent, because of the rarity of such Councils, or rather the nullity. 3. Because the prosecuting of such an Appeal is impossible to most of the world (as is before showed) and were it possible, it would be so tedious and laborious a course, that its ridiculous in most to mention such Appeals.
The Major is undenyable. The Minor is proved, 1. In that it is not known, nor hath the world any rule or way to know in what cases we must appeal to a General Council, and what not; and what is their proper work. 2. In that an appeal to them is an absolute evasion of the guilty, and in vain to the innocent, because of the rarity of such Councils, or rather the nullity. 3. Because the prosecuting of such an Appeal is impossible to most of the world (as is before shewed) and were it possible, it would be so tedious and laborious a course, that its ridiculous in most to mention such Appeals.