A26947:664
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.
1. Any claim that their own ambitious Bishops have made to a further power then was due to them, they use as an Argument for their universal sovereignty: when as we deny not but that there was too much pride and Ambition in their Prelates (which is all that this will prove;) even in some that otherwise might be good men. We deny not but that Zosimus would fain have extorted a confession of his usurped power, and a submission to it from Aurelius, Augustine, and the rest of the African Council. But yet he could not do it. We confess that Leo the first, and Gregory the first, and others, were very busy for the extending of their power: And that the Roman Bishops were long endeavouring to have put the halter on the Africans heads, yea and long about the French before they got them under. And shall these partial ambitious men be the witnesses? And because they would have had more power, doth it follow that it was their due?
1. Any claim that their own ambitious Bishops have made to a further power then was due to them, they use as an Argument for their universal soveraignty: when as we deny not but that there was too much pride and Ambition in their Prelates (which is all that this will prove;) even in some that otherwise might be good men. We deny not but that Zosimus would fain have extorted a confession of his usurped power, and a submission to it from Aurelius, Augustine, and the rest of the Africane Council. But yet he could not do it. We confess that Leo the first, and Gregory the first, and others, were very busie for the extending of their power: And that the Romane Bishops were long endeavouring to have put the halter on the Africanes heads, yea and long about the French before they got them under. And shall these partial ambitious men be the witnesses? And because they would have had more power, doth it follow that it was their due?
2. Again, if they find that any distressed Churches or Bishops have but sent to Rome for help, they presently gather thence that they took the Pope to be Christs Vicar General. As when Chrysostom sent to Innocent, and Basil and the rest in the East did send so oft for help into the West, when as the reasons were but such as these; 1. Because Rome during the Emperors residence there, was the place where life or death was last pronounced on every mans