A26947:921
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 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.)
And did not the sixth Council of Carthage, of which St. Augustine was a principal member, not only detect Pope Zosimus forged Canon of Nice, but also openly and prevalently resist and reject your Usurpation, and refuse your Legates and Appeals to you? If you would cloak this, believe your own Pope Boniface, Epist. ad Eulalium, saying [Aurelius sometime Bishop of Carthage, with his Colleagues, did begin, by the Devils instigation to wax proud against the Church of Rome in the times of our Predecessors, Boniface and Celestine.]
And did not the sixt Council of Carthage, of which St. Augustine was a principal member, not only detect Pope Zosimus forged Canon of Nice, but also openly and prevalently resist and reject your Usurpation, and refuse your Legates and Appeals to you? If you would cloak this, believe your own Pope Boniface, Epist. ad Eulalium, saying [Aurelius sometime Bishop of Carthage, with his Colleagues, did begin, by the Devils instigation to wax proud against the Church of Rome in the times of our Predecessors, Boniface and Celestine.]