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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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4. And by this Rule, either we never had a General Council, or but few: For instance, At the first Session of the Council of Trent (the last and most famous Council) there were but four Archbishops, and twenty two Bishops, taking in the Titular Bishops of Upsal, Armagh, and Worcester. And at divers other Sessions after, but eight, or nine, or very few more. In the fourth Session which Decreed to receive Tradition with equal pious affection and reverence as the holy Scriptures, and which gave us a false Catalogue of the Canonical Books, there were but the Popes Legates, two Cardinals, nine Archbishops (titular and all) and forty one, or forty two Bishops (titular and all.) Now we would fain know whether this was the whole Church morally represented? and whether these twenty two, or forty one were all the Bishops of the world, or the hundred part of them? Yea whether all the Bishops of the African, Asian, and other Churches could and ought to have been there?
4. And by this Rule, either we never had a General Council, or but few: For instance, At the first Session of the Council of Trent (the last and most famous Council) there were but four Archbishops, and twenty two Bishops, taking in the Titular Bishops of Upsal, Armach, and Worcester. And at divers other Sessions after, but eight, or nine, or very few more. In the fourth Session which Decreed to receive Tradition with equal pious affection and reverence as the holy Scriptures, and which gave us a false Catalogue of the Canonical Books, there were but the Popes Legates, two Cardinals, nine Archbishops (titular and all) and forty one, or forty two Bishops (titular and all.) Now we would fain know whether this was the whole Church morally represented? and whether these twenty two, or forty one were all the Bishops of the world, or the hundreth part of them? Yea whether all the Bishops of the African, Asian, and other Churches could and ought to have been there?
If they say that most of the Bishops of the world are Heretics or Schismatics, and had nothing to do to be there, we are sure that this is but the impudent censure of a sect, that unchurcheth most of Christs Church, for far less faults then it self is guilty of: But how is this heavy censure proved?