A26947:170
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
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But perhaps you'll say, they are but few on the other side. I answer: yes: Not only most Popes, and the Italian Clergy, and the predominant party of Papists, but another General Council, even that at the Lateran, under Julius 2. and Leo 10. expressly determine on the contrary, that the Pope is above a General Council. So that here is not only an undeniable proof that General Councils are fallible by their contradicting each other, and that there is a Necessity of rejecting some of them, and consequently that the Foundation of Popery is rotten; but also here is one Representative Catholic Church against another Representative Catholic Church, and one Council for one Species of Sovereignty, and another for another Species of Sovereignty. So that undoubtedly it is not the same Church, that had two heads of several sorts.
But perhaps you'l say, they are but few on the other side. I answer: yes: Not only most Popes, and the Italian Clergy, and the predominant party of Papists, but another General Council, even that at the Lateran, under Julius 2. and Leo 10. expresly determine on the contrary, that the Pope is above a General Council. So that here is not only an undenyable proof that General Councils are fallible by their contradicting each other, and that there is a Necessity of rejecting some of them, and consequently that the Foundation of Popery is rotten; but also here is one Representative Catholick Church against another Representative Catholick Church, and one Council for one Species of Soveraignty, and another for another Species of Soveraignty. So that undoubtedly it is not the same Church, that had two heads of several sorts.
2. And the Nations that are on both sides to this day, are a proof beyond denial of their division. The French on one side, and the Italians on the other; and other nations divided between both. So that the thing which they call by one name, is two indeed. But so is not the true Catholic Church.
2. And the Nations that are on both sides to this day, are a proof beyond denyall of their division. The French on one side, and the Italians on the other; and other nations divided between both. So that the thing which they call by one name, is two indeed. But so is not the true Catholick Church.