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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.
In the very principal point of their Papal Sovereignty, they have nothing but this gross deceit to cheat the world with: The Roman Emperors divers ages after Christ, did give the Bishop of Rome a Primacy in their Empire, and hence these men would persuade us, that even from Christ they have had a Sovereignty over all the Christian world. Wink but at these small mistakes, and they have won the Cause: 1. Suppose but Christs Institution to stand in stead of the Emperors. 2. Suppose divers hundred years after Christ, to have been in the Apostles days. 3. Suppose Primacy to be Sovereignty or Universal Government. 4. But especially grant them, that the Roman Empire was all the Christian world; and then they have made good that part of their Cause.
In the very principal point of their Papal Soveraignty, they have nothing but this gross deceit to cheat the world with: The Roman Emperors divers ages after Christ, did give the Bishop of Rome a Primacy in their Empire, and hence these men would perswade us, that even from Christ they have had a Soveraignty over all the Christian world. Wink but at these small mistakes, and they have won the Cause: 1. Suppose but Christs Institution to stand in stead of the Emperors. 2. Suppose divers hundred years after Christ, to have been in the Apostles days. 3. Suppose Primacy to be Soveraignty or Universal Government. 4. But especially grant them, that the Roman Empire was all the Christian world; and then they have made good that part of their Cause.
That there were many Nations without the reach of the Roman Empire, that had received the Christian Faith, is past doubt. Socrates lib. 1. c. 15. saith that Thomas chose Parthia, Bartholomew chose India, Matthew Ethiopia, to plant the Gospel in; but the middle India was not converted till Constantine's days, by Frumentius and Edesius; and Iberia by a Maid.] So Euseb. l. 3. c. 3. tells us of Thomas his Preaching to the Parthians, and Andrew to the Scythians. ] Et in vit. Const. l. 4. c. 8. that there were many Churches in Persia, & cap. 91. how Constantine wrote for them to the King.] Godignus and others of them maintain that the Abassines did receive the Gospel from the beginning. Besides Scotland ⟨p. 16⟩