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…

O but say the Papists, that was because they had to do only with the Arians, that cared for no authority that was against them. Answ. 1. But would these Arians have so much regarded the votes of the French and Italian Bishops, yea or a few men sent from them, and yet not regard the Head of the Church? The Arians sure had heard of this Headship, if any had. And would not the Orthodox desire so much as a word from Rome for this advantage? 2. But it is false that they were only the Arians that they called for help against. They expressly say, that it was also because they were divided among themselves, (by personal quarrels.) How importunately doth Gregory Nyssen afterward call for help from others, and telleth Flavianus in his Epist. to him, of their misery as if all were lost? And the only sad instance was, that Helladius (counted a good Bishop) had proudly neglected him, and made him stand at his door (when he went to visit him) a great while before he was let in; and then did not bid him sit down; and then did not speak to him first but two or three strange angry words. This was the great business. But to proceed with Basil. Epist. 77. he falls to chiding the Western Bishops, for not sending to them, nor regarding them and their communion: and to touch their pride, he addeth, [We have one Lord, one faith, one hope: Whether you think your selves the Head of the universal Church: the head cannot say to the feet, I have no need of you; or if you place your selves in the order of other Church-members, you cannot say to us, we need you not.] And would you here believe that the Papists have the faces to cite this passage of Basil, for their Headship, because here is the word Head! When as its plain, 1. That Basil by the Head means but the chiefest part, and not the sovereign power. 2. That he speaks to all the Bishops of the West, and not only to the Roman Bishop. 3. That he doth it as a smart reproof of their arrogancy, and not in any approbation at all. But any thing will serve them. More from Basil I shall have occasion to mention anon.

O but say the Papists, that was because they had to do only with the Arrians, that cared for no authority that was against them. Answ. 1. But would these Arrians have so much regarded the votes of the French and Italian Bishops, yea or a few men sent from them, and yet not regard the Head of the Church? The Arrians sure had heard of this Headship, if any had. And would not the Orthodox desire so much as a word from Rome for this advantage? 2. But it is false that they were only the Arrians that they called for help against. They expresly say, that it was also because they were divided among themselves, (by personal quarrels.) How importunately doth Gregory Nyssen afterward call for help from others, and telleth Flavianus in his Epist. to him, of their misery as if all were lost? And the only sad instance was, that Helladius (counted a good Bishop) had proudly neglected him, and made him stand at his door (when he went to visit him) a great while before he was let in; and then did not bid him sit down; and then did not speak to him first but two or three strange angry words. This was the great business. But to proceed with Basil. Epist. 77. he falls to chiding the Western Bishops, for not sending to them, nor regarding them and their communion: and to touch their pride, he addeth, [We have one Lord, one faith, one hope: Whether you think your selves the Head of the universal Church: the head cannot say to the feet, I have no need of you; or if you place your selves in the order of other Church-members, you cannot say to us, we need you not.] And would you here believe that the Papists have the faces to cite this passage of Basil, for their Headship, because here is the word Head! When as its plain, 1. That Basil by the Head means but the chiefest part, and not the soveraign power. 2. That he speaks to all the Bishops of the West, and not only to the Romane Bishop. 3. That he doth it as a smart reproof of their arrogancy, and not in any approbation at all. But any thing will serve them. More from Basil I shall have occasion to mention anon.