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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.
4. They have been utterly divided about the very power of choosing their Pope, in whom they must unite. In one age the People chose him: In another the Clergy chose him; sometime both together: For a long time the Emperors chose him: At last only the Cardinals chose him. And sometime a General Council ⟨p. 55⟩hath chosen him. Our Catholic Church hath no such uncertain Head, but one that's the same yesterday to day and for ever.
4. They have been utterly divided about the very power of choosing their Pope, in whom they must unite. In one age the People chose him: In another the Clergy chose him; sometime both together: For a long time the Emperours chose him: At last only the Cardinals chose him. And sometime a General Council ⟨p. 55⟩hath chosen him. Our Catholick Church hath no such uncertain Head, but one thats the same yesterday to day and for ever.
5. They have often had two or three Popes at once, and one part of the Church hath followed one, and another the other: yea (as is said for forty years together, none knew the true Pope) saith Cajetane ubi sup. [Of the Schism of that time there were three so accounted Popes, that none of them might be esteemed the Successor of Peter either certain, or without ambiguity.] For many ages one part hath been running after one, and the other after the other, or striving about them. But we are all agreed in our Head without Controversy.
5. They have often had two or three Popes at once, and one part of the Church hath followed one, and another the other: yea (as is said for forty years together, none knew the true Pope) saith Cajetane ubi sup. [Of the Schism of that time there were three so accounted Popes, that none of them might be esteemed the Successor of Peter either certain, or without ambiguity.] For many ages one part hath been running after one, and the other after the other, or striving about them. But we are all agreed in our Head without Controversie.