A26947:919
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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3. But perhaps you'll say, that though your Popes have been condemned by Councils, yet so have not your maintained doctrines. Answ. Yes, that they have too. Did not the Councils at Constantinople condemn the Doctrine of the second Nicene Council for Image-worship, and the Council at Frankford do the like? And those two at Constantinople were as much General as your Council of Trent was, and much more.
3. But perhaps you'l say, that though your Popes have been condemned by Councils, yet so have not your maintained doctrines. Answ. Yes, that they have too. Did not the Councils at Constantinople condemn the Doctrine of the second Nicene Council for Image-worship, and the Council at Frankford do the like? And those two at Constantinople were as much General as your Council of Trent was, and much more.
And yet that same Council at Nice did condemn the doctrine of St. Thom. Aquinas, and your Doctors commonly of worshipping the Image of Christ, and Cross, and sign of the Cross with Latria, divine worship.
And did not your General Councils at Lateran and Florence declare that the Pope is above a Council, and that they cannot depose him? &c. And yet your General Councils at Constance and Basil determine the contrary as an Article of Faith, and expressly affirm the former to be Heresy. See then your own doctrine, even in a fundamental point condemned by General Councils of your own (which side soever you take, the Popes, or the Councils.)
And did not your General Councils at Laterane and Florence declare that the Pope is above a Council, and that they cannot depose him? &c. And yet your General Councils at Constance and Basil determine the contrary as an Article of Faith, and expresly affirm the former to be Heresie. See then your own doctrine, even in a fundamental point condemned by General Councils of your own (which side soever you take, the Popes, or the Councils.)