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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.
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.
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 joyning 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.
And yet if all this will not serve, we have your own Confessions. I have elsewhere mentioned some: Canus Loc. Theol. lib. 6. cap. 7. fol. 201. saith [Not only the Greeks, but almost all the rest of the Bishops of the whole world, have vehemently fought to destroy the Privilege of the Church of Rome: and indeed they had on their side, both the Arms of Emperors, and the greater number of Churches: and yet they could never prevail to abrogate the Power of the one Pope of Rome] Mark here whether the Catholic Church was then your subjects, when the greater number of Churches, and most of the Bishops of the whole world, as well as the Greeks were against you, and vehemently fought against your pretended privileges.
And yet if all this will not serve, we have your own Confessions. I have elsewhere mentioned some: Canus Loc. Theol. lib. 6. cap. 7. fol. 201. saith [Not only the Greeks, but almost all the rest of the Bishops of the whole world, have vehemently fought to destroy the Priviledge of the Church of Rome: and indeed they had on their side, both the Arms of Emperors, and the greater number of Churches: and yet they could never prevail to abrogate the Power of the one Pope of Rome] Mark here whether the Catholick Church was then your subjects, when the greater number of Churches, and most of the Bishops of the whole world, as well as the Greeks were against you, and vehemently fought against your pretended priviledges.