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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.
[We following alway the Definitions of the holy fathers, and the Canon, and knowing those that now have been read of the hundred and fifty Bishops, most beloved of God, that were Congregated under the Emperor of pious memory Theodosius the Greater, in the Royal City Constantinople (new Rome,) have our selves also defined the same things, concerning the Privileges of the same most holy Church of Constantinople, new Rome. For to the seat of old Rome, because of the Empire of that City, the Fathers consequently gave the Privileges. And the hundred and fifty Bishops most beloved of God, being moved with the same intention, have given equal Privileges to the most holy Seat of New Rome: reasonably judging, than the City adorned with the Empire and Senate, shall enjoy equal Privileges with old Regal Rome.]
[We following alway the Definitions of the holy fathers, and the Canon, and knowing those that now have been read of the hundred and fifty Bishops, most beloved of God, that were Congregated under the Emperour of pious memory Theodosius the Greater, in the Royall City Constantinople (new Rome,) have our selves also defined the same things, concerning the Priviledges of the same most holy Church of Constantinople, new Rome. For to the seat of old Rome, because of the Empire of that City, the Fathers consequently gave the Priviledges. And the hundred and fifty Bishops most beloved of God, being moved with the same intention, have given equall Priviledges to the most holy Seat of New Rome: reasonably judging, than the City adorned with the Empire and Senate, shall enjoy equal Priviledges with old Regal Rome.]
I do not stand to note that this Council was called by Martian: that his Lay Officers were called the Judges, or how light the Council made of Rome when they said [Qui contradicunt Nestoriani sunt: qui contradicunt Romam ambulent] Bin. p. 98. ⟨p. 83⟩Nor do I stand so much on it, that they gave Constantinople equal privileges. But it may confound all the Papal Jugglers on earth to find an approved General Council affirming, 1. That Romes Privileges (even its mere primacy) were given by the Fathers. 2. And that because it was the Imperial City. 3. And therefore on the same reason they do the like by Constantinople. 4. And that the General Council of Constant. had gone before them on these grounds: so that you have the vote of two of the first four great General Councils, that it was not so from the beginning, nor an Apostolical Tradition, but the act of the Fathers, because of the Imperial City. If a General Council can err, Popery is a deceit. If it cannot err, then the very Primacy of order in the Pope was then but new, and humane, on a Carnal ground, done by man, that might do the like by others, and therefore undo this again.