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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 4 › Section
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3. It is the prerogative of Christ himself to be the supreme, absolute and final Judge of the sense of his own Laws, and of the causes that are to be tried thereby.
3. It is the prerogative of Christ himself to be the supream, absolute and final Judge of the sence of his own Laws, and of the causes that are to be tried thereby.
And therefore it is treasonable folly to attribute any of this to man: and to cry out for an Absolute Judge of Controversies here on earth: when one saith, This is the sense of Scripture, and another saith that is the sense: saith the Papist, [But who shall be Judge?] To which I answer, How far man is Judge, I shall tell you in the next: but the Absolute Judge, and the final Judge is only Christ. He that made the Law is the proper Judge of the sense of his own Laws: Do you not know that Christ will come to judgement, and that all secrets must then be opened by him, and he must decide what man cannot? Man is to Judge but in tantum; ad hoc; secundum quid; limitedly; so far as he must execute; but Christ only Judgeth entirely, finally and absolutely, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4, 5. 1 Tim. 5. 24. Jam. 4. 11, 12. 1 Pet. 1. 17. & 2. 23. 1 Cor. 2. 15. Act. 23. 3. 1 Cor. 13. 9, 10, 11, 12. Mark 7. 9, 13