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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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In answer to which I shall first refer the Reader to my Second s•eet for the Ministry in Justification of their Call; Where these Reasons are confuted, and our calling vindicated: and I shall forbear here to repeat the same things again: Also I refer you for a fuller Answer to the London Ministers Jus Divinum Ministerii, and to Mr. Tho. Balls Book for the Ministry; and Mr. Masons Book in vindication of the Ministry of those Reformed Churches that have not Prelates, and to Voetius Desper. Caus.
2. Though we need not fetch our Ordination from Rome, yet, as to them, we may truly say, that if they have any true Ordination and Ministry, then so have we: For our first Reformers were Ordained by their Bishops, which is enough to stop their mouths. If they say that our Schism hath cut off our power of Ordination, I answer ad hominem, that (though it is they that are indeed the Notorious Schismatics, yet) if we were what they falsely say we are, it would not null our Ordination, Confirmation, or such other acts. And this is the Judgement of their own writers. I shall at this time only cite the words of one of them, and of many in that one: and that is Thom. à Jesis de Conversione Gentium, lib. 6. cap. 9. Where he affirms it to be one of the Certainties agreed on [that Schismatics lose not, nor can lose any spiritual power consisting in the spiritual Character of Baptism, or Confirmation of Orders: For this is indelible, as Dr. Thomas teacheth here, Art. 3. and Turrecremata confirmeth, lib. 4. sum. part. 1. c. 7. and Sylvester verb. Schismatici: and it appeareth by Pope Urban's Can. Ordinations, 9. q. 1. Who judgeth those to be truly ordained, that were ordained by Schismatical Bishops: And from Austin lib. 6. de Bapt. Cont. Donatist. cap. 5. where he saith that [A Separatist may deliver the Sacrament as well as have it.] He next addeth that yet such are deprived of the faculty of Lawful using the Power which they have, so that it will be their sin to use it, though it be not a nullity if they do use it: and that thus those are to be understood that speak against the Ordination, Confirmation, &c. of Schismatics; viz. that it is unlawful, because their power is suspended ⟨p. 207⟩