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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
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.
And sometime the Pope is called the Pillar of the Church; And what of that? so are many others as well as he; as all the Apostles were as well as Peter? The Church is built on the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets. That the Pastors of the Church were ordinarily called the Pillars and props of it, as by Nicephorus Gildas, Theodoret, Basil, Tertullian, Dionysius, Hierom, Augustine, &c. you may see proved in Gatakers Cinnus page 395, 396.
And lastly, when the Papists read their Popes called the Successors of Peter, they take this as a proof of their Sovereignty. Whereas 1. Peter himself had no such Sovereignty. 2. They succeed him not in his Apostleship. 3. They are called Pauls Successors as well as Peters. 4. Others are called Peters Successors too as well as they, by the Fathers. 5. And other Bishops ordinarily are called the Apostles Successors, and other Churches called Apostolic Churches.
And lastly, when the Papists read their Popes called the Successors of Peter, they take this as a proof of their Soveraignty. Whereas 1. Peter himself had no such Soveraignty. 2. They succeed him not in his Apostleship. 3. They are called Pauls Successors as well as Peters. 4. Others are called Peters Successors too as well as they, by the Fathers. 5. And other Bishops ordinarily are called the Apostles Successors, and other Churches called Apostolick Churches.
I shall only set before them the words of one man at this ⟨p. 176⟩time, (Hesychii Hierosol. apud Photium Cod. 269.) and desire them to tell me whether ever more were said of the Pope, yea or of Peter, then he saith of Andrew, calling him [Chori Apostolici primogenitus, primitus defixa Ecclesiae columna, Petri Petrus, fundamenti fundamentum; principii principium vel primitiae, qui vocavit antequam vocaretur, adduxit priusquam adduceretur] i. e. [The first begotten of the Apostolic Chore, the first fixed Pillar of the Church; the Peter of Peter, or the Rock of Peter, the Foundation of the Foundation; the Principal of the Principal, who called before he was called, and brought (others) to (Christ) before he was brought to him (by any others.)