A26947:1548
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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Object. There may be a Prorex, a Viceking: and why not then a Vicarious Head of the Catholic Church? Answ. 1. Because a Kingdom is not so big as all the world, or all that is and may be Christian. 2. Because a King having Dominion, hath power of doing all that by others that he cannot do himself: But a Pastor being a Minister, hath no such power given him, but must do his work himself. 3. Because the work of the Ministry requires far more labour and attendance. So that it is an utter Imopssibility that any man should be able to do the work of a supreme Ruler of all the Christian world, yea or the hundred part of it, as it must be done. 4. And lastly, because Christ hath made no such Prorex, or Vice-head: and none can have it without his commission.
Object. There may be a Prorex, a Viceking: and why not then a Vicarious Head of the Catholick Church? Answ. 1. Because a Kingdom is not so big as all the world, or all that is and may be Christian. 2. Because a King having Dominion, hath power of doing all that by others that he cannot do himself: But a Pastor being a Minister, hath no such power given him, but must do his work himself. 3. Because the work of the Ministry requires far more labour and attendance. So that it is an utter Imopssibility that any man should be able to do the work of a supream Ruler of all the Christian world, yea or the hundreth part of it, as it must be done. 4. And lastly, because Christ hath made no such Prorex, or Vice-head: and none can have it without his commission.
Object. But the Civil power hath been exercised by an Emperor over more then all the Christian world: And why then may not the Ecclesiastical? Answ. 1. Its notoriously false that ever Emperor had so extensive a Dominion. 2. The Gospel must be preached over all the world; and therefore we must consider the possible future extent of the Church, and not only the present existent state. 3. There are many millions of Christians mixed in the Dominions of Infidel Princes among other Religions, which makes the Government of them the more difficult. 4. I showed before from the nature of the work many other difficulties, which make a difference.
Object. But the Civil power hath been exercised by an Emperour over more then all the Christian world: And why then may not the Ecclesiastical? Answ. 1. Its notoriously false that ever Emperour had so extensive a Dominion. 2. The Gospel must be preached over all the world; and therefore we must consider the possible future extent of the Church, and not only the present existent state. 3. There are many millions of Christians mixt in the Dominions of Infidel Princes among other Religions, which makes the Government of them the more difficult. 4. I shewed before from the nature of the work many other difficulties, which make a difference.