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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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Next they convince the Roman Bishop of sending them a false Canon of the Nicene Council. 13. And they show us here what way the Pope then took to get and keep his Power: even by sending to the secular commanders of the Provinces, (in whom they had special interest by their residence at Rome,) to execute their wills by force. 14. And note how the Council plainly accuseth them for this, of introducing secular Arrogancy into Christs Church, that better loveth simplicity and humility and light. 15. And note how plainly they require the Bishop of Rome to do so no more. 16. And how plainly they tell him that Faustinus his stay any longer in Africa will not stand with that honesty and moderation of the Bishop of Rome which is necessary to the safety of brotherly charity.
Next they convince the Roman Bishop of sending them a false Canon of the Nicene Council. 13. And they shew us here what way the Pope then took to get and keep his Power: even by sending to the secular commanders of the Provinces, (in whom they had special interest by their residence at Rome,) to execute their wills by force. 14. And note how the Council plainly accuseth them for this, of introducing secular Arrogancy into Christs Church, that better loveth simplicity and humility and light. 15. And note how plainly they require the Bishop of Rome to do so no more. 16. And how plainly they tell him that Faustinus his stay any longer in Africa will not stand with that honesty and moderation of the Bishop of Rome which is necessary to the safety of brotherly charity.
I give you but the plain passages of the Council as they lie before ⟨p. 151⟩you, and screw no forced consequences from them. And now let Binnius and his brethren go make women and children believe that it was not Appeals to Rome, but a trouble some manner of trial that the Council was against. And let H. T. tell men that take him for infallible, of a Nicene Canon for the Popes Supremacy and Monarchy. And let him persuade idiots and dotards that the Catholic Church in the fourth and fifth ages was for the universal Government of the Pope. And so I proceed to his next proof.