A26947:619
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.
In the sixth age he had not one Council to pretend it seems for the Roman Sovereignty, for he cites none, but about other matters (of which anon.)
In the sixth age he had not one Council to pretend it seems for the Roman Soveraignty, for he cites none, but about other matters (of which anon.)
In the seventh age (which he calls the sixth) though then the Sovereignty was claimed by Boniface, he citeth no Council for it neither.
In the seventh age (which he calls the sixth) though then the Soveraignty was claimed by Boniface, he citeth no Council for it niether.
In the eighth age (from the year seven hundred) he cites the second Council of Nice, as approving an Epistle of Pope Adrian, wherein he saith that the Roman Church is the Head of all Churches.] Answ. 1. But whether Adrian himself by the Head meant the chief in Dignity, or the Governor of all, is a great doubt. 2. But whatever he meant, the Synods approving his Epistle for Images, is no proof that they approved every word in it. 3. Yea Tharasius seems to imply the contrary, calling him only, Veteris Romae primas & testatorum principum successor; as if his Sea ⟨p. 153⟩had the Privilege only of being the Primate of Rome, and not the Ruler of the world. 4. But if this Council did (as it did not) openly own the Papal Sovereignty, it had been no great honour to him: For as in their decrees for Images they contradicted two Councils at Constantinople; and that at Frankford contradicteth them; so might they as well contradict the Church in this: Even as they defined Angels to be corporeal, which the Council of Lateran afterward contradicted. But the plain truth is, it was the scope of Adrians Epistle as for Images, which they expressed themselves to approve. And that their Image-worship it self hath no Catholic succession, me thinks they should easily grant, considering not only, 1. That there is nothing in the first ages for them. 2. And that Epiphanius and many before him speak expressly against it. 3. But specially that there have been more General Councils of those ages against them then for them, and that before this of Nice decreed for them, the representative Catholic Church (except still the Pope be the Catholic Church) did condemn them.