A26947:787
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.
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.
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 joyn with them that would wrest Hieroms words to a sence 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 seniores did exercise Discipline in the Assembly, he testifieth in Apologet.
Mr. Prin hath cited you abundance of Fathers that were for the parity of the Ministry, or against Prelacy jure Divino.