A26947:1535
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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They have not yet produced a Text to prove either of them. Those produced by the Italians for the Popes Headship, are disclaimed by the French, as meaning no such thing; and our Writers have largely manifested their abusing of the Text. So have they done of those that are brought for the Headship of Councils. These texts are spoke to so fully by Chamier, Whitaker, Amesius, and abundance more, that I think it in vain to do it here again. That of 1 Tim. 3. 15. that the Church is the pillar and ground of Truth, doth not speak a word of a General Council, nor a word of Headship: The whole Church united in Christ, is the Pillar and Ground, that is, the certain Receptacle and retainer of the Truth, the Law of Christ being written in their hearts.
None seems more to favour their concecit then Ephes. 4. 15, 16. which Grotius fastens on: But even that is against them, and not for them. For 1. It is Christ and only Christ that is here said to be the head, and all other parts contradistinguished, and excluded from Headship, and the Body is not said to be united in them. 2. And it is by association, and mutual communication of their several gifts, that the parts are compacted together, and edify the whole; and not by meeting in any one, and deriving from it.
None seems more to favour their concecit then Ephes. 4. 15, 16. which Grotius fastens on: But even that is against them, and not for them. For 1. It is Christ and only Christ that is here said to be the head, and all other parts contradistinguished, and excluded from Headship, and the Body is not said to be united in them. 2. And it is by association, and mutual communication of their several gifts, that the parts are compacted together, and edifie the whole; and not by meeting in any one, and deriving from it.