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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
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3. Note also, that when the Papists find but any Heresy condemned by the Bishop of Rome, they cite this as a testimony of their Sovereignty: As if other Patriarch and Bishops condemned them not as well as they; Or as if we knew no that the Church desired the most general vote against Heretics, and therefore would be loth to leave so great a Bishop out.
3. Nore also, that when the Papists find but any Heresie condemned by the Bishop of Rome, they cite this as a testimony of their Soveraignty: As if other Patriarch and Bishops condemned them not as well as they; Or as if we knew no that the Church desired the most general vote against Hereticks, and therefore would be loth to leave so great a Bishop out.
4. And when they find the Pope excommunicating foreign Bishops, they cry up this as a Testimony of his Headship: As if we did not know, 1. That to refuse Communion with another Church or Bishop is no act of Jurisdiction over them. 2. That other Bishops have made bold also to excommunicate the Pope: I'll now but recite those words of Nicephorus lib. 17. cap. 26. which you use to glory in (as many do in their own shame) [Vigilius (saith he) proceeded to that insolency, that he excommunicated Mennas for four months. And Mennas did the same by him: But Justinian being moved to anger with such things, sent some to lay hold on him. But Vigilius being afraid of himself, fled to the Altar of Sergius the Martyr, and laid hold on the Sacred Pipes, would not be drawn away till he had pulled them down—] But by the Mediation of the Empress Theodora, the Pope was pardoned, and Menna and he absolved one another. A fair proof of the Vicarship! 3. And so it was, that Pope Honorius was condemned for an Heretic by two or three General Councils.
4. And when they find the Pope excommunicating forreign Bishops, they cry up this as a Testimony of his Headship: As if we did not know, 1. That to refuse Communion with another Church or Bishop is no act of Jurisdiction over them. 2. That other Bishops have made bold also to excommunicate the Pope: I'le now but recite those words of Nicephorus lib. 17. cap. 26. which you use to glory in (as many do in their own shame) [Vigilius (saith he) proceeded to that insolency, that he excommunicated Mennas for four moneths. And Mennas did the same by him: But Justinian being moved to anger with such things, sent some to lay hold on him. But Vigilius being afraid of himself, fled to the Altar of Sergius the Martyr, and laid hold on the Sacred Pipes, would not be drawn away till he had pul'd them down—] But by the Mediation of the Empress Theodora, the Pope was pardoned, and Menna and he absolved one another. A fair proof of the Vicarship! 3. And so it was, that Pope Honorius was condemned for an Heretick by two or three General Councils.