A26947:927
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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6. Here specially note that this General Council thought they needed not the Popes Approbation for the validity of their Decrees, when they pass them, and take them for valid, even contrary to the will of the Pope. Speak you that bear the least reverence to a General Council. Did this Council think that their Decrees were invalid, if the Pope approve them not? You see, if you be not wilfully blind, they did not. And who is now to be believed? Bellarmine and his party, and the present prevalent party of the Papists, that say, Councils not approved by the Pope are invalid or without authority; or the Council of Calcedon that thought otherwise?
7. Note that the Popes Legates called this [An humbling, and depressing, and wronging of the Papacy, and therefore entered their dissent: see Bellarmines Confession lib. 2. de Pontif. cap. 17. Binnius notes on this Council. Baronius an. 451.
7. Note that the Popes Legates called this [An humbling, and depressing, and wronging of the Papacy, and therefore entred their dissent: see Bellarmines Confession lib. 2. de Pontif. cap. 17. Binnius notes on this Council. Baronius an. 451.
8. Note also that the shifts of Bellarm. Binnius, Baronius, Becanus, Gretser, &c. are apparently false, that say this Canon was surreptitiously brought into the Council: for Aetius, Act. 16. openly professed the contrary, and all the Bishops professed their consent to the last.