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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.
And what should hinder, when there is but one mans vote against it, even the Popes, but that Novelty and error may enter at any time; and when that one man is oft so wicked and Heretical as he is. For General Councils are but a mere name and mockery. The packing of them shows it: the Paucity and nonUniversality of them shows it. The Management of their affairs shows it. They do nothing since the Papal reign, but what the Pope will (excepting the condemned Councils) They have no Being till he Will; nor make any Decrees but what he Will: Nor are their Decrees of any further power, then he is pleased to give them. So that his Will is the sense of the General Council or universal Church. I need not turn you for this to Sleidan, or Uergerius Bishop of Trent, that tell us the Holy Ghost came to that Council in a Cloak-bag from Rome: nor to Espensaeus in Tit. 1. pag. 42. seeing Bellarmine speaks it out, De Concil. lib. 2. cap. 11. saying, [We must know that the Pope is wont to send Legates instructed concerning the judgement of the Apostolic seat, with this Condition, that if the Council do consent to the Judgement of the Apostolic seat, it shall be formed into a Decree; If not, the forming of the decree shall be deferred till the Pope of Rome, being advised with, shall return his answer] And saith Bellarmine de Concil. lib. 2. cap. 11. [In the Council of Basil, Ses. 2. it was decreed by common consent, together with the Popes Legate, that a Council is above the Pope; which certainly is now judged erroneous] And the Council of Lateran and Florence decreed the contrary. And Pighius saith, Hierarch. Eccles. l. 6. that [the Councils of Constance and Basil ⟨p. 237⟩went about by a new trick, and pernicious example to destroy the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and instead of it to bring in the Domination of a promiscuous confused popular multitude, that is to raise again Babylon it self, subjecting to themselves, or to the community of the Church, (which they falsely pretended that they Represent) the very Head and Prince of the whole Church; and him that is the Vicar of Christ himself in this his Kingdom, and this against Order and Nature, against the clearest light of Gospel verity, against all Authority of Antiquity, and against the undoubted Faith and Judgement of the Orthodox Church it self.]
And what should hinder, when there is but one mans vote against it, even the Popes, but that Novelty and error may enter at any time; and when that one man is oft so wicked and Heretical as he is. For General Councils are but a meer name and mockery. The packing of them shews it: the Paucity and nonUniversality of them shews it. The Management of their affairs shews it. They do nothing since the Papal reign, but what the Pope will (excepting the condemned Councils) They have no Being till he Will; nor make any Decrees but what he Will: Nor are their Decrees of any further power, then he is pleased to give them. So that his Will is the sense of the General Council or universal Church. I need not turn you for this to Sleidan, or Uergerius Bishop of Trent, that tell us the Holy Ghost came to that Council in a Cloak-bag from Rome: nor to Espensaeus in