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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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Eph. 5. 23. It is the peculiar Title of Christ to be Head of the Church, to whom it must be subject, 1 Cor. 11. 3. The Apostle would have us know that the Head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the Head of Christ is God. So that there is a particular Head over some parcel of the body below Christ: but to be the Universal Head of every man, is the proper Title of Christ. In 1 Cor. 12. the unity of the body and diversity of the members is more largely expressed then any where else in Scripture; and there when the said unity of the body had been so fully mentioned, the Apostle comes to name the Head of that Unity, Vers. 27. which is only Christ. [Now ⟨p. 434⟩ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular] The Church is never called the body of the Pope, or of a Council, but the body of Christ: yea (as was even now said) in the next words the Apostles, Prophets, and Teachers are enumerated to the particular members, contradistinct from the Head, so far are all, or any one of them from being the head themselves. And in Col. 2. 10, 17, 19. it is Christ only that is called the Head, and the body is said to be of Christ, and he only is mentioned as the Centre of its Unity [And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints, and bands having nourishment ministered and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.] And Col. 1. 18. And he is the Head of the body, the Church.] If any say that you cannot hence argue Negatively that therefore no one else is the Head, I answer, They may as well say, when it is affirmed that [the Lord he is God] you cannot thence conclude that Baal is not God. The Apostle plainly speaks this of Christ as his peculiar honour: And he spoke to men that knew well enough that natural bodies have but one Head, unless they be Monsters: And he would not so oft insist on this Metaphor, intending so great a disparity in the similitude, and never discover any such intention; So in