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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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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⟩words of the Council, which are these [A hard question hath been in divers parts, and before this holy Synod, about the Conception of the glorious Virgin Mary, and the beginning of her Sanctification; some saying that the Virgin and her soul was for some time or instant of time actually under Original sin: others on the contrary, saying, that from the beginning of her Creation, God loving her, gave her grace by which preserving and freeing that blessed person from the Original spot—we, having diligently look into the authorities and reasons, which for many years past have in public relation on both sides been alleged before this holy Synod, and having seen many other things about it, and weighed them by mature consideration, do Define and Declare, that the doctrine affirming that the glorious Virgin Mary the Mother of God, by the singular preventing and operating grace of God, was never actually under Original sin, but was ever free from all Original and actual sin, and was holy and immaculate, is to be approved, held and embraced of all Catholics as godly and Consonant to Church-worship, Catholic faith, right reason, and sacred Scripture: and that henceforth it shall be lawful for no man to preach and teach the contrary] Is not this plain Defining?
Take another instance in the forementioned Case, Whether the Pope or Council be supream: The Councils of Constance and Basil determined it one way as de fide, and yet that made no end of the Controversie. The Council of Lateran and Pope Leo determined it the other way; and yet it is a Controversie after two contrary decisions: and some say one way, and some the othe: and some say, It is yet undecided (for fear of angring the French by casting them off as Hereticks.) Another instance. The Council at Basil Sess. 36. (pag. 80. in Binnius) hath fully determined the Controversie between the Franciscans and Dominicans about the Virgin Maries 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 carryeth it as boldly out, as if never Council had made or medled with it. I will therefore recite the