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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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2. And if it be not General Councils, but the Pope that is the Rule of their Faith; then, 1. Their Faith hath been interrupted, yea and turned to Heresy and to Infidelity when the Pope hath so turned. 2. And why then do they tell our people, that they take not the Pope for the Rule of their Faith?
2. And if it be not General Councils, but the Pope that is the Rule of their Faith; then, 1. Their Faith hath been interrupted, yea and turned to Heresie and to Infidelity when the Pope hath so turned. 2. And why then do they tell our people, that they take not the Pope for the Rule of their Faith?
3. If it be the Major part of the Universal Church, 1. It's known that two to one are against them, or at least the Greater part: therefore by that Rule their Faith in the Papal Sovereignty is false. 2. And yet it would be hard, if a man must be of no Belief, till he have brought the world to the pole for it.
3. If it be the Major part of the Universal Church, 1. It's known that two to one are against them, or at least the Greater part: therefore by that Rule their Faith in the Papal Soveraignty is false. 2. And yet it would be hard, if a man must be of no Belief, till he have brought the world to the pole for it.
Argum. 3. If all the stir that the Papists make in the world for the Papal Government be but to rob Christian Princes and Magistrates of their Power, then are they but a seditious Sect: But the Antecedent is apparent: For there are but two sorts of Government in the Church: The one is by the Word applied unto the Conscience, which worketh only on the willing; either by General exhortations as in Preaching; or by personal application, as in Sacraments, Excommunication and Absolution: And this is the work of the present Pastors, and cannot be performed by the Pope: Nor would he be content with this, to govern Volunteers. The other is by Commands, that shall be seconded with force: And this is proper to the Magistrate. But if they will be deluded to give up their Crowns and Sceptres to the Pope, let them stand as the objects of the compassion of Spectators.