A26947:173
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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Answ. Where the Sovereignty is mixed and not in either alone, if any one shall set up the one as the only Sovereign, and subject the other to them, they change the form of the Commonwealth, but ⟨p. 28⟩do not set up two Commonwealths; but if half take one for the Sovereign, and the other half take the other for the Sovereign, they plainly divide the Commonwealth into two: if they do it only in mind, and the secret thoughts of their hearts, this cannot be known to others, and so cannot be the ground of a Society: but if they do it by a public consent and practice, they evidently make two Commonwealths. What else brought us into a war which ended not till one party was subdued? It is not possible that one Political body should have two Sovereigns specifically distinct. Indeed it may have five hundred natural persons in the Sovereignty (as in a Senate;) but they are but one Political person, or one summa potestas.
Answ. Where the Soveraignty is mixt and not in either alone, if any one shall set up the one as the only Soveraign, and subject the other to them, they change the form of the Commonwealth, but ⟨p. 28⟩do not set up two Commonwealths; but if half take one for the Soveraign, and the other half take the other for the Soveraign, they plainly divide the Commonwealth into two: if they do it only in mind, and the secret thoughts of their hearts, this cannot be known to others, and so cannot be the ground of a Society: but if they do it by a publike consent and practice, they evidently make two Commonwealths. What else brought us into a war which ended not till one party was subdued? It is not possible that one Political body should have two Soveraigns specifically distinct. Indeed it may have five hundred natural persons in the Soveraignty (as in a Senate;) but they are but one Political person, or one summa potestas.
2. But I prove the Minor by another Argument. Where there are two three or four Heads or Sovereigns at once numerically distinct, there are two or three or four Churches. But the Roman Church pretending to be Catholic, hath had two or three or four Heads at once numerically distinct; therefore it was two or three or four Churches.