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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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And here also you may see what account the Papists make even of the first General Councils. Its all one with them to judge others Heretics for contradicting especially the four first General Councils (compared to the four Evangelists) as the Scripture it self: and yet (who would have thought it) they profess themselves to reject the Canons or Decrees of both these, the first of Constantinople, and that of Calcedon in part.
And here also you may see what account the Papists make even of the first General Councils. Its all one with them to judge others Hereticks for contradicting especially the four first General Councils (compared to the four Evangelists) as the Scripture it self: and yet (who would have thought it) they profess themselves to reject the Canons or Decrees of both these, the first of Constantinople, and that of Calcedon in part.
And, now I think on it, by this privilege I cannot see but the Pope is privileged from all possibility of being an Heretic personally. But these things are on the by, I return to the point in hand, which is to prove to you, that not only the Romish Universal Monarchy and Vice-godhead, but even its Patriarchal Primacy was no Apostolical Tradition, but an Humane Institution, founded on this Consideration, that Rome was the Imperial Seat and City.
And, now I think on it, by this priviledge I cannot see but the Pope is priviledged from all possibility of being an Heretick personally. But these things are on the by, I return to the point in hand, which is to prove to you, that not only the Romish Universal Monarchy and Vice-godhead, but even its Patriarchal Primacy was no Apostolical Tradition, but an Humane Institution, founded on this Consideration, that Rome was the Imperial Seat and City.