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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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4. Sometime they find where Rome is called Caput Ecclesiarum, and then they think they have won the cause. When if you will consult the words, you shall find that it is no more then that Priority of Dignity which (not Christ, but) the Emperors and Councils gave them, that is intended in the word. Its called the Head, that is, the chief Seat in Dignity, without any meaning that the Pope is the universal Monarch of the world.
4. Sometime they find where Rome is called Caput Ecclesiarum, and then they think they have won the cause. When if you will consult the words, you shall find that it is no more then that Priority of Dignity which (not Christ, but) the Emperours and Councils gave them, that is intended in the word. Its called the Head, that is, the chief Seat in Dignity, without any meaning that the Pope is the universal Monarch of the world.
5. But what if they find the Pope called the Archbishop of the Catholic Church, or the Universal Bishop? then they think they have the day. I answer, indeed three flattering Monks at the Council of Calcedon, do so superscribe their libels; but they plainly mean no more then the Bishop that in order of dignity is above the rest; And many particular Churches are oft called Catholic Churches. There's difference between [A Catholic Church] and [The Catholic Church.] And the Bishop of Constantinople had that Title, even by a Council at Constant. an. 518. before the Bishop of Rome had it publicly, or durst own it: It was settled on the Patriarch of Constantinople to be called the Ecumenical or Universal Patriarch. Who knoweth not that Emperors gave such Titles at their pleasure? Justinian would sometime give the Primacy to Rome, and at another time to Constantinople, saying [Constantinopolitana Ecclesia omnium aliarum est caput: The Church of Constantinople is the Head of all other Churches.] An. Dom. 530. C. de Episcopis. l. 1. lege 24. And its known that this Justinian that sometime ⟨p. 175⟩calls Rome the Head, did yet when the fifth General Council had condemned Vigilius Pope of Rome, permit Theodora his Empress to cause him to be fetched to Constantinople, and dragged about the street in a halter, and then banished, till they had forced him to subscribe and submit to the Council: even as they had deposed Pope Silverius his predecessor. And Baronius himself mentioneth a Vatican Monument which as it calls Agapetus Episcoporum princeps on one side, so doth it call Menna [the Apostolic Universal Bishop:] Which Baronius saith, doth mean no more then that he was Universal over his own Provinces: and if that be so, any Bishop may be called Universal. And do not these men know what Council of Carthage decreed that the Bishop primae sedis should be called neither Summus Sacerdos, nor Princeps Sacerdotum, vel aliquid hujusmodi, tantum Episcopus primae sedis: i. e. Not the chief Priest, or the chief of Priests but the Bishop of the first seat] And how long will they shut their eyes against the testimony of two of their own Popes, Pelagius and Gregory the first that condemned the name of Universal Bishop?