A26947:1509
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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The Major is a known principle in polity: He that giveth power, can take it away: And it's confessed by the Opponents in this case.
The Minor I prove, 1. Because else it would be in the power of the Pope or Council, whether Christ shall have any Ministry and Church or not. They may at least make havoc of it at pleasure. But that's false. 2. As is before said, we receive not our power from them: therefore they cannot take it from us. 3. The Holy Ghost doth make us Over-seers of the flock, Act. 20. 28. and lay a Necessity on us, and denounce a woe against us, if we preach not the Gospel: and hath no where given us leave to give over his work, if the Pope or a Council shall forbid us. 4. And they can show no Commission from Christ that giveth them such a power.
The Minor I prove, 1. Because else it would be in the power of the Pope or Council, whether Christ shall have any Ministry and Church or not. They may at least make havock of it at pleasure. But that's false. 2. As is before said, we receive not our power from them: therefore they cannot take it from us. 3. The Holy Ghost doth make us Over-seers of the flock, Act. 20. 28. and lay a Necessity on us, and denounce a woe against us, if we preach not the Gospel: and hath no where given us leave to give over his work, if the Pope or a Council shall forbid us. 4. And they can shew no Commission from Christ that giveth them such a power.
Arg. 10. If it were the form or Essence of the Church to have a humane visible Head, then our Relation to such a head would be essential to our Membership or Christianity. But the Consequence is false: therefore so is the Antecedent.