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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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What good will it do to say we must centre some where, and know not where, and obey some body, and know not who? The Italians and Spanish make the Pope the Infallible Head, and say a General Council without him may err, and is but the body. The French make the Council the Head, and say the Pope may err; and that the infallibility (such as they plead for) is in the Council. It is not a Head, but this Head in specie, that is, the form of the Church, if any such be: And therefore they must needs (according to their own principles) be of divers Churches, while they place the Sovereignty in several sorts and persons. Till they better ⟨p. 432⟩agree among themselves in their Fundamentals and Essentials of the Church, we have small encouragement to think of uniting on any of their grounds.
What good will it do to say we must center some where, and know not where, and obey some body, and know not who? The Italians and Spanish make the Pope the Infallible Head, and say a General Council without him may err, and is but the body. The French make the Council the Head, and say the Pope may err; and that the infallibility (such as they plead for) is in the Council. It is not a Head, but this Head in specie, that is, the form of the Church, if any such be: And therefore they must needs (according to their own principles) be of divers Churches, while they place the Soveraignty in several sorts and persons. Till they better ⟨p. 432⟩agree among themselves in their Fundamentals and Essentials of the Church, we have small encouragement to think of uniting on any of their grounds.
Argum. 19. The Sovereign Power or Headship over the Church is a thing undoubtedly revealeed in the Holy Scripture: (For we cannot imagine that the Scripture should be silent in so weighty a point, without intolerable accusation of it.) The Sovereign Power or Headship of Pope or Council is not revealed in the Holy Scripture. Therefore, &c.