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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.
6. If you say that your Judge hath power to oblige you only on one side, that is, when he judgeth right (and so make no Judge of him, but a Teacher) we have such Judges as well as you, even Teachers to show us the Evidence of truth.
6. If you say that your Judge hath power to oblige you only on one side, that is, when he judgeth right (and so make no Judge of him, but a Teacher) we have such Judges as well as you, even Teachers to shew us the Evidence of truth.
7. If you say that you have a Judge to determine of heresies in order to the Punishing of them by the sword: So have we as well as you, and better then you. For your Pope is a Priest that hath nothing to do with the sword, (at least out of his own Principalities): but our Princes and other Rulers are lawful Magistrates, that are appointed to be a terror to evil doers, Rom. 13. 4, 6.
7. If you say that you have a Judge to determine of heresies in order to the Punishing of them by the sword: So have we as well as you, and better then you. For your Pope is a Priest that hath nothing to do with the sword, (at least out of his own Principalities): but our Princes and other Rulers are lawful Magistrates, that are appointed to be a terror to evill doers, Rom. 13. 4, 6.
8. If you say that you have a Judge to determine of heresy in Order to Excommunication, so have we in every Church: even the Pastors of the Churches, who are bound to unite and assist each other in such works. What is to be accounted Heresy, the Law of God sufficiently determineth: And what particular persons are to be Judged heretics and excommunicated according to that Law, the particular Pastors that are on the place can better decide then a Pope that is a thousand, or five thousand miles off, and cannot hear the witnesses. And do you not your selves decide almost all such cases through the world (that is of your subjection) by the present Pastors or Bishops, and not by the Pope? And why may not we do so then as well as you?