A26947:786
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. He that is ordained according to the Apostles directions, or prescript in Scripture, hath the true Apostolical Ordination; but so are we Ordained; therefore,—The Apostles never Confined Ordination to Prelates, much less to those Prelates that depend on the Pope of Rome: The Bishops to whom the Apostles committed this Power, are the same that are called Presbyters by them, and they were the Overseers or Pastors but of one single Church, and not of many Churches. And such are those that Ordain among us now. Gregor. Nazianzen. Orat. 18. saith thus [I would there were no Presidency, nor Prerogative of Place, and Tyrannical Privileges; that so we might be known only by virtue, (or mere desert:) But now this Right side, and Left side, and Middle, and Lower Degree, and Presidency, and Concomitancy, have begot us many Contritions to no purpose, and have driven many into the Ditch, and have led them away to the region of the Goats.]
6. He that is ordained according to the Apostles directions, or prescript in Scripture, hath the true Apostolical Ordination; but so are we Ordained; therefore,—The Apostles never Confined Ordination to Prelates, much less to those Prelates that depend on the Pope of Rome: The Bishops to whom the Apostles committed this Power, are the same that are called Presbyters by them, and they were the Overseers or Pastors but of one single Church, and not of many Churches. And such are those that Ordain among us now. Gregor. Nazianzen. Orat. 18. saith thus [I would there were no Presidency, nor Prerogative of Place, and Tyrannical Priviledges; that so we might be known only by vertue, (or meer desert:) But now this Right side, and Left side, and Middle, and Lower Degree, and Presidency, and Concomitancy, have begot us many Contritions to no purpose, and have driven many into the Ditch, and have led them away to the region of the Goats.]
What Hierom saith, both in his Epistle to Evagrius, and on Tit. cap. 2. is commonly known. The many plain Testimonies of Anselmn are commonly Cited, as plain as Hieroms Alphons. à Castro advers. Haeres. lib. 6. in nom. Episcop. had more ingenuity then to join with them that would wrest Hieroms words to a sense so contrary to their most plain importance. Tertullian cap. 17. de Bapt. thought Lay-men in Necessity might Baptize, (and so doth the Church of Rome now.) Why then may not Presbyters in such a case at least Ordain? when, as he there saith, [Quod ex aequo accipitur, ex aequo dari potest] And ibid. he saith, that it is but propter Ecclesiae honorem, that Bishops Rule in such matters, and that peace may be kept, and Schism avoided. But that probati quique seniors did exercise Discipline in the Assembly, he testifieth in Apologet.