A26947:932
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.
But their last shift is, that this Clause or Canon was not approved, and so is Null. 1. Mark then you that wrote this Manuscript, that we have General Councils against you; but we want the Popes Approbation. And in good sadness was that the meaning of your Question [What Council, that is, what Pope condemned our Church?] Can it be expected that this one man should condemn himself? or can you be no Heretic till then?
But their last shift is, that this Clause or Canon was not approved, and so is Null. 1. Mark then you that wrote this Manuscript, that we have General Councils against you; but we want the Popes Approbation. And in good sadness was that the meaning of your Question [What Council, that is, what Pope condemned our Church?] Can it be expected that this one man should condemn himself? or can you be no Heretick till then?
2. But let it be so this once. Did not your Pope approve of this Council, when Gregory the first did liken it with the other three to the four Gospels? and said of this [Tota devotion Complector: integerrima approbatione custodio] I embrace it with my whole devotion; I keep it with most entire approbation] Greg. 1. Regist. l. 1. Epist. 24. cited in the Decrees, Dist. 15. c. 2. I think this is expressly a full Approbation, not without excepting any part only, but excluding all such exceptions. And the like Approbation of Gelasius in the Roman Council is cited there also in the Decrees, ibid. pag. 33.
2. But let it be so this once. Did not your Pope approve of this Council, when Gregory the first did liken it with the other three to the four Gospels? and said of this [Tota devotione Complector: integerrima approbatione custodio] I embrace it with my whole devotion; I keep it with most entire approbation] Greg. 1. Regist. l. 1. Epist. 24. cited in the Decrees, Dist. 15. c. 2. I think this is expresly a full Approbation, not without excepting any part only, but excluding all such exceptions. And the like Approbation of Gelasius in the Roman Council is cited there also in the Decrees, ibid. pag. 33.