A26947:422
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.
2. But yet we have not so done with them, till Tradition have given them their mortal stroke. You appeal to Tradition, to Tradition you shall go. But what Tradition mean you? The Tradition of the Catholic Church? And where is this to be found and known? but in the profession and practice of the Church, and in the Records of the Church. Well then! of both these let us enquire.
2. But yet we have not so done with them, till Tradition have given them their mortal stroak. You appeal to Tradition, to Tradition you shall go. But what Tradition mean you? The Tradition of the Catholick Church? And where is this to be found and known? but in the profession and practice of the Church, and in the Records of the Church. Well then! of both these let us enquire.
The first and great Question between you and us, is, Whether the Pope be the Head and Sovereign Ruler of the whole Catholic. Church: and then whether the Catholic Church and the Roman are of equal extent? What saith Tradition to this?
The first and great Question between you and us, is, Whether the Pope be the Head and Soveraign Ruler of the whole Catholick. Church: and then whether the Catholick Church and the Roman are of equal extent? What saith Tradition to this?
1. Let us enquire of the present Church: and there we have the profession and practice of all the Greek Church; the Syrians, ⟨p. 99⟩the Muscovites, the Georgians, and all others of the Greek Religion dispersed throughout the Turks Dominions, with the Jacobites, Armenians, Egyptians, Abassines, with all other Churches in Europe, &c. that disclaim the Headship of the Roman Pope; all these do with one mouth proclaim that the Church of Rome is not, and ought not to be the Mistress of the world, or of all other Churches, but that the Pope for laying such a claim is an usurper, if not the AntiChrist. This is the Tradition of the Greeks; this is the Tradition of the Abassines: the far greatest part of the Church on earth agree in this. Mark then what is become of the Roman Sovereignty, by the verdict of Tradition; even from the vote of the greatest part of the Church. Rome hath no right to its pretended Sovereignty. Babylon is fallen by the judgement of Tradition.