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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.
10. Is it not a plain Judgement of God upon you, that while you make the Scripture so dark and not intelligible, ⟨p. 49⟩and cry up the Necessity of a living Judge, you should not only swarm with differences among your selves, but should be utterly disagreed, and at a loss to know who is this Judge of Controversies, one saying it is the Pope, and another that its the Council; and what the better are you for saying, There must be a Judge, as long as you cannot tell Who it must be? Its not only uncertain among you Whether Pope or Council be the Infallible Judge, but also which is a true Pope, and which is a lawful General Council? For forty years at least together, the Church could not know the true Pope, but the more learned and conscionable men were divided: Nor is it known to this day. Frequently the strongest hath carried it, and success been his best title. Nay General Councils themselves knew not the right Pope. The Council at Constance and Basil knew not the right Pope. They of Basil thought Felix the fifth the true Pope, and Eugenius no Pope: But friends and strength confuted a General Council, and proved deposed Eugenius the Pope. And for Councils themselves, who knows which to take for currant and of Authority? What Catalogues have you of reprobated Councils, and of doubtful Councils, and partly approved, partly reprobate, and who knows which and how far; but only that is approved, that pleaseth the Pope, and that reprobate that displeased him, and yet perhaps approved by a former Pope: So that you are all in a confusion and uncertain about your true Popes and General Councils.
10. Is it not a plain Judgement of God upon you, that while you make the Scripture so dark and not intelligible, ⟨p. 49⟩and cry up the Necessity of a living Judge, you should not only swarm with differences among your selves, but should be utterly disagreed, and at a loss to know who is this Judge of Controversies, one saying it is the Pope, and another that its the Council; and what the better are you for saying, There must be a Judge, as long as you cannot tell Who it must be? Its not only uncertain among you Whether Pope or Councill be the Infallible Judge, but also which is a true Pope, and which is a lawfull General Council? For fourty years at least together, the Church could not know the true Pope, but the more learned and conscionable men were divided: Nor is it known to this day. Frequently the strongest hath carried it, and success been his best title. Nay General Councils themselves knew not the right Pope. The Council at Constance and Basil knew not the right Pope. They of Basil thought Felix the fifth the true Pope, and Eugenius no Pope: But friends and strength confuted a General Council, and proved deposed Eugenius the Pope. And for Councils themselves, who knows which to take for currant and of Authority? What Catalogues have you of reprobated Councils, and of doubtfull Councils, and partly approved, partly reprobate, and who knows which and how far; but only that is approved, that pleaseth the Pope, and that reprobate that displeased him, and yet perhaps approved by a former Pope: So that you are all in a confusion and uncertain about your true Popes and General Councils.