A26947:610
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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Especially, because it is granted to every one to appeal to the Councils of their own Province, or to a Universal Council, if he be offended with the judgement of the Cognitors. Unless there should be any one that can ⟨p. 149⟩think that our God can inspire a justice of trial into any one man (N. B.) and deny it to innumerable Priests that are congregated in Council. Or how can that judgement that's past beyond sea be valid, to which the necessary persons of the witness could not be brought, either because of the infirmities of sex, or of age, many other impediments intervening. For that any (i. e. Legates) should be sent as from the side of your holiness, we find not constituted by any Synod of the Fathers. Because that which you sent us by our fellow Bishop Faustinus as done by the Nicene Council in the truer Councils, received as the Nicene, (sent from holy Cyril our fellow Bishop of the Church of Alexandria, and from venerable Atticus the Bishop of Constantinople, out of the Authentic (Records,) which also heretofore were sent by us to Boniface your predecessor, Bishop of venerable memory, by Innocent a Presbyter, and Marcellus Subdeacon, by whom they were from them to us directed,) in which we could find no such matter. And do not ye send your Clergy executors to potent men; do not ye yield to it; lest we seem to bring the smoky Arrogancy of the world (or secular arrogancy) into the Church of Christ, which preferreth the light of simplicity and day of humility for them that desire to see God. For of our brother Faustinus, we are secure, that the safe brotherly charity in your holinesses honesty and moderation, can suffer him to stay no longer in Africa.]
Especially, because it is granted to every one to appeal to the Councils of their own Province, or to a Universall Council, if he be offended with the judgement of the Cognitors. Unless there should be any one that can ⟨p. 149⟩think that our God can inspire a justice of tryall into any one man (N. B.) and deny it to innumerable Priests that are congregated in Councill. Or how can that judgement thats past beyond sea be valid, to which the necessary persons of the witness could not be brought, either because of the infirmities of sex, or of age, many other impediments intervening. For that any (i. e. Legates) should be sent as from the side of your holiness, we find not constituted by any Synod of the Fathers. Because that which you sent us by our fellow Bishop Faustinus as done by the Nicene Council in the truer Councils, received as the Nicene, (sent from holy Cyril our fellow Bishop of the Church of Alexandria, and from venerable Atticus the Bishop of Constantinople, out of the Authentick (Records,) which also heretofore were sent by us to Boniface your predecessor, Bishop of venerable memory, by Innocent a Presbyter, and Marcellus Subdeacon, by whom they were from them to us directed,) in which we could find no such matter. And do not ye send your Clergy executors to potent men; do not ye yield to it; lest we seem to bring the smoaky Arrogancy of the world (or secular arrogancy) into the Church of Christ, which preferreth the light of simplicity and day of humility for them that desire to see God. For of our brother Faustinus, we are secure, that the safe brotherly charity in your holinesses honesty and moderation, can suffer him to stay no longer in Africa.]