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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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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.
7. The chief error of the Papists in this cause is expressed in their reason, [No man can give the Power that he hath not:] wherein they intimate, that it is Man that giveth the Ministerial Power: whereas it is the gift of Christ alone: Man doth but design the person that shall receive it, and then Christ ⟨p. 213⟩giveth it by his Law to the person so designed: and then man doth in vest him and solemnize his introduction. As a woman may choose her an husband, but it is not she that giveth him the Power over her, but God who determineth of that Power by his Law, affixing it to the person chosen by her, and her action is but a condition fine qua non, or cause of the capacity of the matter to receive the form. And so is it here. When do but obey God in a right choice and designation of the person, his Law doth presently give him the Power, which for orders sake he must be in a solemn manner invested with. But matters of Order may possibly vary; and though they are to be observed as far as may be, yet they always give place to the Ends and substance of the work, for the ordering whereof they are appoineed.
7. The chief error of the Papists in this cause is expressed in their reason, [No man can give the Power that he hath not:] wherein they intimate, that it is Man that giveth the Ministerial Power: whereas it is the gift of Christ alone: Man doth but design the person that shall receive it, and then Christ ⟨p. 213⟩giveth it by his Law to the person so designed: and then man doth in vest him and solemnize his introduction. As a woman may choose her an husband, but it is not she that giveth him the Power over her, but God who determineth of that Power by his Law, affixing it to the person chosen by her, and her action is but a condition fine qua non, or cause of the capacity of the matter to receive the form. And so is it here. When do but obey God in a right choice and designation of the person, his Law doth presently give him the Power, which for orders sake he must be in a solemn manner invested with. But matters of Order may possibly vary; and though they are to be observed as far as may be, yet they alwayes give place to the Ends and substance of the work, for the ordering whereof they are appoineed.