A26947:669
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.
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.
5. Also when they meet with any big words of their own Popes (as I command this or that) they take it for a proof of the Vicarship: As if big words did prove Authority. Or as if we knew not how lowlily and poorly they spoke to those that were above them. As Gregory the first for instance, was high enough towards those that he thought he could master. but what low submissive language doth he use to secular Governors that were capable of overtopping him? And what flattering language did his successors use to the most base murderers and usurpers of the Empire?