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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.
Were it not a great Schism, think you, if a few Anabaptists should say, We are the whole Church, and all others are Heretics or Schismatics? Or was it not a great Schism of the Donatists to arrogate that title to themselves, and unchurch so many others? And what Church did they forsake? Augustine tells them over and over what the Catholic Church was that they withdrew from? even all true Christians dispersed over ⟨p. 254⟩the earth: Or that Church which begun at Jerusalem, and thence diffused it self through the world. But he never blames them for separating from the Universal Roman Head or Vicar: but from the Church of Rome, as a conspicuous combination of particular Churches. Optatus and he do blame them for withdrawing, as also from other Churches.
Were it not a great Schism, think you, if a few Anabaptists should say, We are the whole Church, and all others are Hereticks or Schismaticks? Or was it not a great Schism of the Donatists to arrogate that title to themselves, and unchurch so many others? And what Church did they forsake? Augustine tells them over and over what the Catholick Church was that they withdrew from? even all true Christians dispersed over ⟨p. 254⟩the earth: Or that Church which begun at Hierusalem, and thence diffused it self through the world. But he never blames them for separating from the Universal Roman Head or Vicar: but from the Church of Rome, as a conspicuous combination of particular Churches. Optatus and he do blame them for withdrawing, as also from other Churches.
What if John of Constantinople in prosecution of his title of Universal Patriarch, had concluded as you, that none in the world are Christs members but his members, nor of the Church, but his subjects, had not this been a notorious schism? Tell us then what Church he had forsaken, and answer your self.