A26947:281
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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19. Moreover, indeed they have very little Religious unity at ⟨p. 58⟩all among them; for its force and terror that keeps men in their Church: And who can tell under such violence how many stick to them in Conscience and willingly? He that will forsake their Religion in Spain, must be tormented and burnt at a stake, and in other Countries where they have full power, he must be at least undone. So that 1. Theirs is a unity of bodies more then of minds: 2. And their union is not procured by the Pope as Pope; but by the temporal sword, which the Pope hath usurped over some countries, and which deluded Princes use by his persuasion in other Countries. What a juggling deceit then is this, to persuade poor souls, that the only way to unity is to Centre in the Pope of Rome, and that this is the most effectual means of ending differences! when in the mean they make so little use of it, and place so little confidence in it themselves, but uphold their unity by the Magistrates sword? And if this be the way, we have Magistrates among us as well as they, that can as effectually compel men to unity, as far as their Judgements tell them it is fit: And besides this force, it is the riches and preferment of their Clergy, with their immunity from secular power, & the like, that is the means of their unity. But it is the light of holy Scripture opened by a faithful Ministry, and countenanced by Christian Magistracy without tyranny, that is our means of unity.
19. Moreover, indeed they have very little Religious unity at ⟨p. 58⟩all among them; for its force and terror that keeps men in their Church: And who can tell under such violence how many stick to them in Conscience and willingly? He that will forsake their Religion in Spain, must be tormented and burnt at a stake, and in other Countreys where they have full power, he must be at least undone. So that 1. Theirs is a unity of bodies more then of minds: 2. And their union is not procured by the Pope as Pope; but by the temporal sword, which the Pope hath usurped over some countreys, and which deluded Princes use by his perswasion in other Countreys. What a jugling deceit then is this, to perswade poor souls, that the only way to unity is to Center in the Pope of Rome, and that this is the most effectual means of ending differences! when in the mean they make so little use of it, and place so little confidence in it themselves, but uphold their unity by the Magistrates sword? And if this be the way, we have Magistrates among us as well as they, that can as effectually compell men to unity, as far as their Judgements tell them it is fit: And besides this force, it is the riches and preferment of their Clergy, with their immunity from secular power, & the like, that is the means of their unity. But it is the light of holy Scripture opened by a faithfull Ministry, and countenanced by Christian Magistracy without tyranny, that is our means of unity.