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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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First therefore we would learn of them, whether the preeminence and order of the five Patriarchal Sees, began not about the first General Council to be looked after, but was settled some while after: For till there were General Councils (such as were so called) there was no great occasion of determining which should have the first, second, or third seat.
First therefore we would learn of them, whether the preheminence and order of the five Patriarchal Sees, began not about the first General Council to be lookt after, but was setled some while after: For till there were General Councils (such as were so called) there was no great occasion of determining which should have the first, second, or third seat.
2. Or when ever the time was, yet we enquire, whether these other Sees as of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, or some of them were not Patriarchal as soon as Rome? and whether Councils that speak of priority or posteriority, do not in the same manner, and on the same grounds, and to the same ends give Alexandria, and Antioch, their places, as they give to Rome the first place? Surely we find them speaking of them as matters of the same Order and nature, saying, Rome shall have the first place or seat, Constantinople the second, Alexandria the third, Antioch the fourth, and Jerusalem the fifth. 4. And therefore we enquire whether all these have not the same kind of right to their preeminence, whether it be Divine or Humane. And that the very foundation ⟨p. 82⟩of this Patriarchal order, yea of Romes Patriarchal Primacy, (which was the preparative to its universal Sovereignty) was not a mere humane invention, given on occasion of the Imperial seat at Rome, and not any institution of Christ to Peter and his Successors, I desire you not to take from my word; but all that will not be fooled out of all Historical verity by Popish audacity, let them take it from the express words of the fourth great approved General Council, viz. of Calcedon, which the poor Jacobites and other Churches of the East and South are so reproached for rejecting. In