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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Major is confessed. The Minor I prove thus, 1. Where there are two Heads or Sovereign Powers specifically distinct, there are two Societies, or Churches. But those called Papists, or the Roman Catholic Church, have two Heads or Sovereign Powers specifically distinct. Therefore they are two Churches.
The Major is confessed. The Minor I prove thus, 1. Where there are two Heads or Soveraign Powers specifically distinct, there are two Societies, or Churches. But those called Papists, or the Roman Catholick Church, have two Heads or Soveraign Powers specifically distinct. Therefore they are two Churches.
The Major is granted by all Politicians, who do without contradiction specify Common-wealths and other Political Societies from the Sovereign Powers: and so the Monarchical, Aristocratical and Democratical are several Species. The Belgian Common-wealth, and the French, be not specifically the same.
The Major is granted by all Politicians, who do without contradiction specifie Common-wealths and other Political Societies from the Soveraign Powers: and so the Monarchical, Aristocratical and Democratical are several Species. The Belgian Common-wealth, and the French, be not specifically the same.
The Minor hath two standing proofs so visible that he must be blind indeed that cannot see them. First there are the many Volumes that are written by both sides for their several forms: Bellarmine, Gretsor and the rest of the Italian faction proving that the Pope is the chief Power, and above a General Council, and the seat of Infallibility, and not to be judged by any, being himself the Judge of the whole world. And the other party proving that a General Council is above the Pope, and that he is to be judged by them, and may be deposed by them. If any say, that they are but few and no true Catholics of this Opinion, I answer, then a General Council are but few and no true Catholics, which yet is said by them to represent the whole Catholic Church: For the General Council of Constance and of Basil have peremptorily asserted it, and repeat it over and over; yea the Council of Basil say, Ses. ultim. that [Not one of the skilful did ever doubt but that the Pope was subject to the Judgement of a General Council, in things that concern faith. And that he cannot without their consent dissolve or remove a General Council; yea and that this is an Article of faith, which without destruction of salvation cannot be denied, and that the Council is above the Pope, de fide, and that it cannot be removed without their own consent, and that he is an heretic that is against these things] See