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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.
The next witness brought is the Council of Calcedon, as calling Leo Universal Archbishop and Patriarch of old Rome, and sentence is pronounced against Dioscorus in the names of Leo and Saint Peter.] Answ. 1. This is but one of your common frauds. It was not the Council that called him universal Archbishop, but two Deacons in the superscription of their Libels, viz. Thedodorus and Ischirion. And were they the Catholic Church? 2. By [Universal Archbishop] its plain that they meant no more then the chief in dignity and order of all Archbishops; and not the Governor of all. 3. I have showed you before that this very Council in its Canons not only give the Bishop of Constantinople equal privileges with the Bishop of Rome, but expressly say that Rome received this primacy of order à patribus, from a Council, because it was Sedes Imperii, the seat of the Emperor. I thought I had given you enough of this Council before. Sure I am when Bellarmine comes to this Canon, he hath nothing to say for his cause, but plainly to charge this famous fourth General Council with lying or falsehood, and to say, that the Pope approved not this Canon. But approved or not approved, if this was the Catholic Church representative, sure I am that their testimony is valid to prove that there was then no Catholic reception of the Roman Monarchy as of God, but contrarily a mere primacy of Dignity and Honour given it newly by men.
The next witness brought is the Council of Calcedon, as caling Leo Universal Archbishop and Patriarch of old Rome, and sentence is pronounced against Dioscorus in the names of Leo and Saint Peter.] Answ. 1. This is but one of your common frauds. It was not the Council that called him universall Archbishop, but two Deacons in the superscription of their Libels, viz. Thedodorus and Ischirion. And were they the Catholick Church? 2. By [Universal Archbishop] its plain that they meant no more then the chief in dignity and order of all Archbishops; and not the Governour of all. 3. I have shewed you before that this very Council in its Canons not only give the Bishop of Constantinople equal priviledges with the Bishop of Rome, but expresly say that Rome received this primacy of order à patribus, from a Council, because it was Sedes Imperii, the seat of the Emperour. I thought I had given you enough of this Council before. Sure I am when Bellarmine comes to this Canon, he hath nothing to say for his cause, but plainly to charge this famous fourth General Council with lying or falshood, and to say, that the Pope approved not this Canon. But approved or not approved, if this was the Catholick Church representative, sure I am that their testimony is valid to prove that there was then no Catholick reception of the Roman Monarchy as of God, but contrarily a meer primacy of Dignity and Honour given it newly by men.