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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. If they shall tell you that it is not Election but Consecration that makes a Pope, yea or that Consecration is of Necessity with Election; then 1. Demand of them whether it be any one whosoever that may Consecrate, or whether this high power be confined to certain hands? If any may serve, or any Bishops, then he that can get three drunken Bishops to consecrate him may be Pope. And then there may be an hundred Popes at once. But if it be confined to certain hands, 2. Let it be put down in the Definition, or at least declared who those are that must ordain or consecrate him. 3. And if they say, that It must be only the Italian Bishops that must consecrate, then 1. Know of them by what Law of God they have power to consecrate a Head to the universal Church, when all nations are agreed that quod pertinet ad omnes, ab omnibus tractari debet. 2. And by what Law they can create or Generate a creature of a more noble species then themselves, as if a beast should beget a man? Or whether this prove not, that as a Bishop at first was but Presbyter primae sedis, (like the fore man of a Jury) and thence sprung an Archbishop, who was Episocopus primae sedis, and thence a Patriarch, who was Archiepiscopus primae sedis; so in process of time, when Pride grew riper, the Pope grew to be Patriarcha primae sedis; but not till long after, the Head or Governor of the universal Church, nor Patriarcha Patriarcharum; no more then ⟨p. 77⟩the Archbishops or Bishops were at first Episcopi Episcoporum.
2. If they shall tell you that it is not Election but Consecration that makes a Pope, yea or that Consceration is of Necessity with Election; then 1. Demand of them whether it be any one whosoever that may Consecrate, or whether this high power be confined to certain hands? If any may serve, or any Bishops, then he that can get three drunken Bishops to consecrate him may be Pope. And then there may be an hundred Popes at once. But if it be confined to certain hands, 2. Let it be put down in the Definition, or at least declared who those are that must ordain or consecrate him. 3. And if they say, that It must be only the Italian Bishops that must consecrate, then 1. Know of them by what Law of God they have power to consecrate a Head to the universal Church, when all nations are agreed that quod pertinet ad omnes, ab omnibus tractari debet. 2. And by what Law they can create or Generate a creature of a more noble species then themselves, as if a beast should beget a man? Or whether this prove not, that as a Bishop at first was but Presbyter primae sedis, (like the fore man of a Jury) and thence sprung an Archbishop, who was Episocopus primae sedis, and thence a Patriarck, who was Archiepiscopus primae sedis; so in process of time, when Pride grew riper, the Pope grew to be Patriarcha primae sedis; but not till long after, the Head or Governour of the universall Church, nor Patriarcha Patriarcharum; no more then