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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
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The Major is a known truth to all that are versed in any degree in the doctrine of Politics. It is not only two species of Sovereignty, but two individual Sovereigns that are inconsistent with the numerical Unity of a Political body. Two, or ten, or two hundred may join in one Sovereignty, as one Political person (as I said) but if there be two Sovereigns, there are certainly two Societies: for if both be Supreme, neither is Subordinate. The Minor is not to be denied: for the Papists lay their very foundation on a supposed division: for sooth Peter and Paul were both at once their Bishops. And there is not many of them that adventure to tell us, that Peter only was the Supreme, and that Paul was under him: but they make them as equals, or coordinate; and some of them say, that Paul was the Bishop of the uncircumcision, and Peter of the Circumcision (and then Peters Church is confined to the Jews) And they do not tell us, that one Headship was divided between them: For then that example would direct them still to have two Popes, or two Bishops to a Church: so that Peter being a Head, and Paul a Head, they had sure distinct bodies.
The Major is a known truth to all that are verst in any degree in the doctrine of Politicks. It is not only two species of Soveraignty, but two individual Soveraigns that are inconsistent with the numerical Unity of a Political body. Two, or ten, or two hundred may joyn in one Soveraignty, as one Political person (as I said) but if there be two Soveraigns, there are certainly two Societies: for if both be Supream, neither is Subordinate. The Minor is not to be denyed: for the Papists lay their very foundation on a supposed division: for sooth Peter and Paul were both at once their Bishops. And there is not many of them that adventure to tell us, that Peter only was the Supream, and that Paul was under him: but they make them as equals, or coordinate; and some of them say, that Paul was the Bishop of the uncircumcision, and Peter of the Circumcision (and then Peters Church is confined to the Jews) And they do not tell us, that one Headship was divided between them: For then that example would direct them still to have two Popes, or two Bishops to a Church: so that Peter being a Head, and Paul a Head, they had sure distinct bodies.