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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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5. And Humane it must needs be. 1. For we find that Councils did not declare it as any part of the Law of God, but Ordain it as an act of their own. 2. We find them adding the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which was a new seat, neither Patriarch nor Bishop residing there in the Apostles days, or long after. 3. Yea we find them giving this new Patriarch the second place, and once making him equal with old Rome, which they would never have presumed to do, if they had thought that the Patriarchship of Alexandria, Antioch, or Rome had been of Divine Institution: for what horrible arrogancy would that have been, when the Holy Ghost by the Apostles had made Alexandria second, and Antioch third, and Rome first, for a Council to set Constantinople before two of them, and equal with the first?
5. And Humane it must needs be. 1. For we find that Councils did not declare it as any part of the Law of God, but Ordain it as an act of their own. 2. We find them adding the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which was a new seat, neither Patriarch nor Bishop residing there in the Apostles dayes, or long after. 3. Yea we find them giving this new Patriarch the second place, and once making him equal with old Rome, which they would never have presumed to do, if they had thought that the Patriarchship of Alexandria, Antioch, or Rome had been of Divine Institution: for what horrible arrogancy would that have been, when the Holy Ghost by the Apostles had made Alexandria second, and Antioch third, and Rome first, for a Council to set Constantinople before two of them, and equal with the first?
6. And therefore we have reason to think that if Patriarchs be desirable creatures, there may more and more new ones now be made, as lawfully as Constantinople was.