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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.
6. Bellarmine confesseth that the Potestas Ordinis, & interioris jurisdictionis are both as immediately from God to every Bishop as to the Pope, cap. 22. And why then should it be denied of the power of exterior Jurisdiction? 1. Is one part of the Essence of the Office given by the Pope, and the rest without him? 2. And what if it be proved that exterior and interior Jurisdiction of a Pastor is all one? Though the matter of obedience be exterior, yet the Jurisdiction is exercised only on the soul directly, in one case as well as another; it being the mind on which the obiglation lieth, and the Pastoral Rule is powerful and effectual: and further then you procure consent, you are despised: For its the Magistrates work to use violence: Bishops as Bishops can but persuade and deal by words with the inner man.
6. Bellarmine confesseth that the Potestas Ordinis, & interioris jurisdictionis are both as immediately from God to every Bishop as to the Pope, cap. 22. And why then should it be denyed of the power of exterior Jurisdiction? 1. Is one part of the Essence of the Office given by the Pope, and the rest without him? 2. And what if it be proved that exterior and interior Jurisdiction of a Pastor is all one? Though the matter of obedience be exterior, yet the Jurisdiction is exercised only on the soul directly, in one case as well as another; it being the mind on which the obiglation lyeth, and the Pastoral Rule is powerful and effectual: and further then you procure consent, you are despised: For its the Magistrates work to use violence: Bishops as Bishops can but perswade and deal by words with the inner man.
And thus you see what is become of the Papists Succession.
5. Most of the Ministers in England, till within these few ⟨p. 211⟩