A26947:935
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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And indeed it is no hard matter to prove you condemned by your own Popes also. If you could but understand the plainest words in a matter that is against your opinions and wills, there needed no talk to persuade you that Pope Gregory the first condemned ⟨p. 252⟩the Title of Universal Bishop or Patriarch, professing earnestly that he was the forerunner of Antichrist that would usurp it. But the plain truth is, as sad experience teacheth us, no words of Fathers, Popes or Councils, much less of Scripture, are intelligible to you, when your wills are against the matter. But we may truly say of you, that lay all on the will of the Pope, as Austins Observator, your Lodovicus Vives freely speaketh (in schol. in August. lib. 20. de Civit. Dei, cap. 26.) [Those are taken by them for Edicts and Councils, which make for them (or are on their side;) the rest they no more regard then a meeting of women in a workhouse or a washing place.] Do you understand this language of one of your own (but too honest to have much company.)
And indeed it is no hard matter to prove you condemned by your own Popes also. If you could but understand the plainest words in a matter that is against your opinions and wills, there needed no talk to perswade you that Pope Gregory the first condemned ⟨p. 252⟩the Title of Universal Bishop or Patriarch, professing earnestly that he was the forerunner of Antichrist that would usurp it. But the plain truth is, as sad experience teacheth us, no words of Fathers, Popes or Councils, much less of Scripture, are intelligible to you, when your wills are against the matter. But we may truly say of you, that lay all on the will of the Pope, as Austins Observator, your Lodovicus Vives freely speaketh (in schol. in August. lib. 20. de Civit. Dei, cap. 26.) [Those are taken by them for Edicts and Councils, which make for them (or are on their side;) the rest they no more regard then a meeting of women in a workhouse or a washing place.] Do you understand this language of one of your own (but too honest to have much company.)