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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.
In plain English, instead of Apostolical Tradition for your Sovereignty; we find that eight hundred years after the days of Christ, you had not near so much of the Catholic Church in your subjection, as you have now: that at four hundred, or five hundred, if not till six hundred years after Christ you had no known part of the world that acknowledged your universal Sovereignty; but only the Latin Western Church submitted to the Pope as their Patriarch, and the Patriarch primae sedis, the first in order among the Patriarchs: and that before the days of Constantine and the Nicene Council, he was but a Bishop of the richest and most numerous Church of Christians: and we see no proof that of an hundred years after Christ he was any more then the chief Presbyter of a particular Church.
In plain English, instead of Apostolical Tradition for your Soveraignty; we find that eight hundred years after the dayes of Christ, you had not neer so much of the Catholick Church in your subjection, as you have now: that at four hundred, or five hundred, if not till six hundred years after Christ you had no known part of the world that acknowledged your universal Soveraignty; but only the Latine Western Church submitted to the Pope as their Patriarch, and the Patriarch primae sedis, the first in order among the Patriarchs: and that before the dayes of Constantine and the Nicene Council, he was but a Bishop of the richest and most numerous Church of Christians: and we see no proof that of an hundred years after Christ he was any more then the chief Presbyter of a particular Church.
If all this will not serve, we have National Evidences beyond all exception, that the Ethiopian Churches of Habassia, the Indians, Persians, &c. were never your subjects to this day. That England, Scotland, and Ireland here in your Western Circuits, were not only long from under you, but resisted you, maintaining the Council of Calcedon against you, and joining with the Eastern Churches against you, about Easter day, &c. And that the Eastern Churches and many great Nations, (as Tendue, Nubia, &c.) that now are revolted, were never your subjects, and some of them had little to do with you.