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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.
Reynold Peacock, Bishop of Chichester wrote a Book de Ministrorum aequalitate, which your party caused to be burnt.
And Richardus Armachanus, lib. 9. cap. 5. ad Quest. Armen. saith [There is not found in the Evangelical or Apostolical Scriptures any difference between Bishops and simple Priests, called Presbyters; whence it follows, that there is one Power in all, and equal from their Order.] & cap. 7. answering the Question, Whether any Priest may Consecrate Churches, &c. he saith [Priests may do it as well as Bishops, seeing a Bishop hath no more in such matters then any simple Priest: though the Church for reverence to them appoint that those only do it, whom we call Bishops—It seems therefore that the restriction of the Priests Power was not in the Primitive Church, according to the Scripture.]
And Richardus Armachanus, lib. 9. cap. 5. ad Quest. Armen. saith [There is not found in the Evangelical or Apostolical Scriptures any difference between Bishops and simple Priests, called Presbyters; whence it follows, that there is one Power in all, and equall from their Order.] & cap. 7. answering the Question, Whether any Priest may Consecrate Churches, &c. he saith [Priests may do it as well as Bishops, seeing a Bishop hath no more in such matters then any simple Priest: though the Church for reverence to them appoint that those only do it, whom we call Bishops—It seems therefore that the restriction of the Priests Power was not in the Primitive Church, according to the Scripture.]
I refer you to three Books of Mr. Prins, viz. his Catalogue; his Antipathy of Lordly Prelates, &c. and his unbishoping of Timothy and Titus; where you have the Judgements of many writers of these matters. And also to what I have said in my Second Disputation of the Episcopal Controversiès, of purpose on this point.