A26947:424
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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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.
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 Moscovites, 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 Mistriss 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 Soveraignty, by the verdict of Tradition; even from the vote of the greatest part of the Church. Rome hath no right to its pretended Soveraignty. Babylon is faln by the judgement of Tradition.
If you have the faces again to say that all these are Heretics or Schismatics, and therefore have no vote, we answer. If a minor party, and that so partial and corrupt, seeking Dominion over the rest, may step into the Tribunal, and pass sentence against the Catholic Church, or the greatest part of it, blame not others, if on far better grounds they do so by that part. And for shame do not any more hereafter use any such self-condemning words, as to ask any Sect, [How dare you condemn the Catholic Church? Do you think all the Church is forsaken but you, &c?] And let us ask you, as you teach your followers to ask us, [If we must turn from the Universal Church to any Sect, why rather to yours then another? why not as well to the Anabaptists, or other party, as to the Papists?]