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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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2. With us, they are usually but here and there a straggling person, ⟨p. 54⟩or some few half-witted self-conceited Novices that fall off and disagree from us in any thing that destroyeth salvation: But with the Papists, Princes are against Princes, and Nations against Nations, and which is much more, General Councils against General Councils, even in the Foundation of their faith. So that let the General Councils be never so full and learned, and justly called, yet if they be against the Popes Sovereignty over them, the other party call them but Conciliabula, false Councils and Conventicles. Of how great moment this difference is, let the learned Cajetane be a witness, who in his Oration in the Council at the Lateran, under Leo 10. inveighing against the Councils at Pisa, Constance and Basil, makes one to be Babel, and the other Jerusalem.
2. With us, they are usually but here and there a stragling person, ⟨p. 54⟩or some few half-witted self-conceited Novices that fall off and disagree from us in any thing that destroyeth salvation: But with the Papists, Princes are against Princes, and Nations against Nations, and which is much more, General Councils against General Councils, even in the Foundation of their faith. So that let the General Councils be never so full and learned, and justly called, yet if they be against the Popes Soveraignty over them, the other party call them but Conciliabula, false Councils and Conventicles. Of how great moment this difference is, let the learned Cajetane be a witness, who in his Oration in the Council at the Laterane, under Leo 10. inveighing against the Councils at Pisa, Constance and Basil, makes one to be Babel, and the other Jerusalem.
3. As I proved before, the Papists are divided into two several pretended Catholic Churches by making themselves two Sovereigns: but so are not we: For we have but one Head Jesus Christ. That they are two Churches (besides what is said) hear the words of Cajetane in the foresaid Oration (in Bin. p. 552.) [This Novelty of Pisa, sprung up at Constance, and vanished. At Basil it sprung up again and is exploded: and if you be men, it will nw also be repressed as it was under Eugenius the fourth. For it cometh not from heaven, and therefore will not be lasting. Nor doth it embrace the Principality of that One, who is in the Church triumphant, and preserveth the Church militant; and which the Synod of Pisa ought to embrace if it came from heaven, and not, as it doth, to rely on the Government of a multitude. The Church of the Pisans therefore doth far differ from this Church of Christ. For one is the Church of believers: the other of Cavillers: One of the household of God; the other of the Errone us: One (is the Church) of Christian men: the other of such as fear not to tear the coat of Christ, and divide the mystical members of Christ from his mystical body.] This was spoken in Council with applause. And can there yet be greater divisions then these?