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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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And here note 1. That Zosimus knew not then of Pisanus Canons, or else he would have alleged them; nor yet of Bellarmines ⟨p. 148⟩new part of a Canon for the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome. 2. That Zosimus himself had not the faith, the wit or the memory, to plead either Scripture, Apostolical Institution, or Tradition, for his privilege, but only a false Canon of the Council of Nice: as looking no higher it seems for his authority. 3. How early the Roman Bishops begun both to aspire, and make use of forgeries to accomplish it. 4. That there was no such Apostolic or Church Tradition for this Roman power, as our Masters of Tradition now plead for; which all the Catholic Church must know. For the whole Council, with all the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, &c. that is, in a manner all save Rome were ignorant of that which Zosimus would have had them believe, and Bellarmine and H. T. would have us to believe. 5. Note also how little the Church then believed the Popes infallibility. 6. Yea Note, how upon the reception of the several Copies of the Nicene Canons, they modestly convicted Zosimus of falsehood: And how the Council resolved against his usurpation. See in the African Councils, the Epistle of Cyril and Alexandria, and Atticus of Constantinople: and the Epistles of the Council to Boniface and Celestine. In their Epistle to Boniface before they had received their answers from other Churches about the Nicene Canons, they tell him that they believed they should not suffer that Arrogancy [non sumus istum typhum passuri] But to Celestine they conclude more plainly, though modestly [Presbyterorum quoque & sequentium, &c. i. e. [Let your holiness, as beseemeth you, repel the wicked refuges of Presbyters and the Clergy that follow them; because this is not derogate, or taken from the African Church by any Definition of the Fathers; and the Nicene Decrees most plainly committed both the inferior Clergy, and Bishops themselves to the Metropolitans. For they did most prudently, and most justly provide, that all businesses (N. B. all) should be ended in the very places where they begun; and the Grace of the holy Ghost will not (or should not) be wanting to each province: which equity should by the Priests of Christ be prudently observed, and most constantly maintained:
And here note 1. That Zosimus knew not then of Pisanus Canons, or else he would have alledged them; nor yet of Bellarmines ⟨p. 148⟩