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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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3. But suppose there were, yet we must be resolved whether it be some or all the Italian Bishops that must do it? If but some, which be they? and how is their power proved? If all or any, then 1. What shall we do when some of them consecrate one Pope, and some another, and some a third, which hath fallen out: which of these is the Pope? If Consecration give the Power, then all are Popes. 2. And still the Papal succession is overthrown while many Popes had no Consecration by Italian Bishops.
Thus you may see what a case the poor Jesuits or Friars will be in, if you put them but to insert the necessary Electors and Consecrators in their Definition of a Pope.
Thus you may see what a case the poor Jesuits or Fryars will be in, if you put them but to insert the necessary Electors and Consecrators in their Definition of a Pope.
2. But that's not the worst, you must require them to put his necessary Qualification in the Description. For if no Disposition of the Matter be necessary, but ex quolibet ligno fit mercurius Romanus, then a Jew or other Infidel may be Pope: which they will deny. And if any Disposition of the subject be of necessity to the Reception of the form, then cause them to put it down. And then 1. It is either true Godliness: and then farewell Papacy. 2. Or it is common honesty and sobriety: and then still farewell Papacy. 3. Or it is learning and knowledge: and then Alphonsus à Castro, and others of their own will bear witness that some Popes understood not their Grammar, and one good man being (saith Wernerus) rudis literarum, was fain to get another Compope to say his offices, (though it happened that they could not agree, and so a third was chosen, and his choice disliked, and a fourth chosen, till there was six chosen Popes alive at once.) 4. If age be necessary, then the Children Popes (one at least) have interrupted the succession. 5. Yea, if the Masculine Gender be but Necessary, Pope Joan hath interrupted the succession, unless between forty or fifty of their own Historians deceive us. 6. but all this is the smallest part, the Question