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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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Mark Papists: General Councils with the Popes Nuncio may bring in Novelties in faith, against the clearest light of the Gospel, and the full Consent of Antiquity; and yet these Councils affirmed their opinions to be de fide, and the contrary to be Heretical and Damnable, and contrary to all Antiquity. You see then that Novelties are among you in matters of faith. And the French to this day are guilty of those Novelties, and also charge their Adversaries with Innovation.
Nay what will you say, if General Councils themselves are but Novelties, though they are the foundation of the faith of one half of the Papists (as the Pope is of the other) I say not so, but judge whether your Champion Pighius say so, Hierarch. Eccles. lib. 6. cap. 1. fol. 230. where he saith that [Concilia universalia non habent Divinam, & c. General Councils have not a Divine or Supernatural Original, but merely an humane Original, and are the Invention of Constantine a Prince, profitable indeed sometimes to find out in Controversy, which is the Orthodox and Catholic truth, though to this they are not necessary; seeing its a readier way to advise with the Apostolic seat] How now Sirs? Is your Representative Church the foundation of your faith, a Novelty of Constantine's invention; and yet are you in the old way, and must we be put to prove you to be Novelists?
Nay what will you say, if General Councils themselves are but Novelties, though they are the foundation of the faith of one half of the Papists (as the Pope is of the other) I say not so, but judge whether your Champion Pighius say so, Hierarch. Eccles. lib. 6. cap. 1. fol. 230. where he saith that [Concilia universalia non habent Divinam, & c. General Councils have not a Divine or Supernatural Original, but meerly an humane Original, and are the Invention of Constantine a Prince, profitable indeed sometimes to find out in Controversie, which is the Orthodox and Catholick truth, though to this they are not necessary; seeing its a readyer way to advise with the Apostolick seat] How now Sirs? Is your Representative Church the foundation of your faith, a Novelty of Constantines invention; and yet are you in the old way, and must we be put to prove you to be Novelists?