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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.
2. When you come to know who these Electors must be, you open their nakedness. For first if they say, It must be the Cardinals, ask them, where then was the Pope when there were no Cardinals in the world? And whether that were a Pope or not that was chosen by the whole Roman Clergy? or whether those were Popes or not that were chosen by the People? Or those that were chosen by the Emperors? or those that were chosen by Councils? If they tell you that it must be the Roman Clergy; Know whether the Cardinals be the whole Roman Clergy, who are Bishops of other Churches, or whether they are not merely Titular, at least many of them? And whether the People, the Council, or the Emperors were the Roman Clergy? If they would persuade you, that either the people, or the Emperor, or Council did not elect the Pope, but only show whom the Roman Clergy should elect, interposing exorbitantly some unjust force, with the Due Election, then all currant History crieth shame against them, and we will lay the Dispute on that with them readily, though it were with Baronius himself. Nothing almost is more evident in the Papal History, then that there have been at least these five ways of election among them. Let them put it upon this issue with us when they will.
2. When you come to know who these Electors must be, you open their nakedness. For first if they say, It must be the Cardinals, ask them, where then was the Pope when there were no Cardinals in the world? And whether that were a Pope or not that was chosen by the whole Romane Clergie? or whether those were Popes or not that were chosen by the People? Or those that were chosen by the Emperours? or those that were chosen by Councills? If they tell you that it must be the Romane Clergie; Know whether the Cardinals be the whole Romane Clergie, who are Bishops of other Churches, or whether they are not meerly Titular, at least many of them? And whether the People, the Council, or the Emperours were the Romane Clergy? If they would perswade you, that either the people, or the Emperour, or Council did not elect the Pope, but only shew whom the Romane Clergy should elect, interposing exorbitantly some unjust force, with the Due Election, then all currant History cryeth shame against them, and we will lay the Dispute on that with them readily, though it were with Baronius himself. Nothing almost is more evident in the Papal History, then that there have been at least these five ways of election among them. Let them put it upon this issue with us when they will.