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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.
Answ. 1. You see then that Primacy was but the Institution of Councils, for order sake. 2. You see then that it was grounded on a secular reason; for so saith the Canon [because it is new Rome.] 3. You see then that the Popes Primacy was but honorary, and gave him no universal Government. For the primacy here granted to Constantinople, gave them no Government over Alexandria, Antioch, &c. 4. Yea expressly the second Canon limits all Bishops without exception to their own Diocese. And so doth the third Canon, expressly affirming [that according to the Nicene Council in every province, the provincial Council ought to administer and govern all things.] See now what a proof here is of Catholic succession of the Roman Monarchy! Nay how clearly still it is disproved to that time.
Answ. 1. You see then that Primacy was but the Institution of Councils, for order sake. 2. You see then that it was grounded on a secular reason; for so saith the Canon [because it is new Rome.] 3. You see then that the Popes Primacy was but honorary, and gave him no universal Government. For the primacy here granted to Constantinople, gave them no Government over Alexandria, Antioch, &c. 4. Yea expresly the second Canon limits all Bishops without exception to their own Diocess. And so doth the third Canon, expresly affirming [that according to the Nicene Council in every province, the provincial Council ought to administer and govern all things.] See now what a proof here is of Catholick succession of the Roman Monarchy! Nay how clearly still it is disproved to that time.
The next proof of H. T. is from the third Act of the first Council of Ephesus, that Peter yet lives and exercises judgement in his Successors] Answ. He turns us to look a needle in a bottle of hay. That Council is a large volume, containing six Tomes in Binnius, and not divided into Acts. But I suppose at last I have found the place, Tom. 2. c. 15. where the words [that Peter was the Head of the Apostles] though nothing to their purpose, are neither spoken nor approved by the Council, but only by Philip a Presbyter, Celestines Legate. And the Council, though specially moved by his concurrence to extol Celestine to the highest, yet 1. Never spake a word of his Governing power or Sovereignty, but only his consent: And when they mention the Roman Church, it is only their consent which they predicate. 2. And they extol Cyril equally with Celestine [Novo Paulo Celestine (they forgot Peter) Novo Paulo Cyrillo: