A26947:886
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.
Your Learned Cardinal Nicol. Cusanus, lib. de Concord. Cathol. c. 13. &c. tells you how much your Pope hath gotten of late: and plainly tells you, that the Papacy is but of Positive right, and that Priests are equal, and that it is subjectional consent that gives the Pope and Bishops their Majority, and that the distinction of Dioceses, and that a Bishop be over Presbyters, are of Positive right, and that Christ gave no more to Peter than the rest; and that if the Congregate Church should choose the Bishop of Trent for their President and Head, he should be more properly Peters Successor then the Bishop of Rome] Tell us now when the contrary doctrine first arose?
Your Learned Cardinal Nicol. Cusanus, lib. de Concord. Cathol. c. 13. &c. tells you how much your Pope hath gotten of late: and plainly tells you, that the Papacy is but of Positive right, and that Priests are equall, and that it is subjectional consent that gives the Pope and Bishops their Majority, and that the distinction of Diocesses, and that a Bishop be over Presbyters, are of Positive right, and that Christ gave no more to Peter than the rest; and that if the Congregate Church should choose the Bishop of Trent for their President and Head, he should be more properly Peters Successor then the Bishop of Rome] Tell us now when the contrary doctrine first arose?
Gregory de valentia (de leg. usu Euchar. cap. 10. tells you that the Receiving the Sacrament in one kind, began not by the decree of any Bishop, but by the very use of the Churches, and the consent of believers: and tells you, that it is unknown when that Custom first begun, or got head, but that it was General in the Latin Church, not long before the late Council of Constance. And may you not see in this, how other points came in?
Gregory de valentia (de leg. usu Euchar. cap. 10. tells you that the Receiving the Sacrament in one kind, began not by the decree of any Bishop, but by the very use of the Churches, and the consent of believers: and tels you, that it is unknown when that Custom first begun, or got head, but that it was General in the Latine Church, not long before the late Council of Constance. And may you not see in this, how other points came in?