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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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11. Yea and is not Gods hand of Judgement yet more observable against you, that when your Popes and Councils have past their judgement, the several Sects are unable to understand them? witness the late sentence against the Jansenists, of which the persons that seem to be condemned, say, that there is no such thing or words in all Jansenius writings, as the Pope saith are in him, and condemneth as his: and the Controversy is as far from a decision, as if the Pope had held his peace. Yea your great Disputer here in England, Thomas White the Novelist, is the same for all the Popes determination.
11. Yea and is not Gods hand of Judgement yet more observable against you, that when your Popes and Councils have past their judgement, the several Sects are unable to understand them? witness the late sentence against the Jansenists, of which the persons that seem to be condemned, say, that there is no such thing or words in all Jansenius writings, as the Pope saith are in him, and condemneth as his: and the Controversie is as far from a decision, as if the Pope had held his peace. Yea your great Disputer here in England, Thomas White the Novelist, is the same for all the Popes determination.
Take another instance in the forementioned Case, Whether the Pope or Council be supreme: The Councils of Constance and Basil determined it one way as de fide, and yet that made no end of the Controversy. The Council of Lateran and Pope Leo determined it the other way; and yet it is a Controversy after two contrary decisions: and some say one way, and some the oath: and some say, It is yet undecided (for fear of angering the French by casting them off as Heretics.) Another instance. The Council at Basil Sess. 36. (pag. 80. in Binnius) hath fully determined the Controversy between the Franciscans and Dominicans about the Virgin Mary's immaculate conception: and yet it is undetermined still; and Thomas White presumes to affirm, that [Certainly there is no Tradition for it, nor any probability that ever the Negative will be defined. Apolog. for Tradit. pag. 64, 65, 66. yea he carrieth it as boldly out, as if never Council had made or meddled with it. I will therefore recite the ⟨p. 51⟩