A26947:944
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.
Nunc vero aperta jam Maritima ad Aethiopiam via, id praestare quod nequivit prius] that is, [The Pope of Rome who is the Pastor of the whole Church of Christ, was not able in the years past to send Doctors into Habassia, because the Mahometans compassed all, and left not any passage to them. But now the seas are open, he can do that which he could not before] Litre. Gonzal. Roder. in Godign. de Reb. Abass. lib. 2. cap. 18. pag. 324. A fair answer. As if Christ had set either the Pope, or the Abassines an impossible task: and appointed a Governor that for so many hundred years could not govern: or the people must be so many hundred years no Christians, though they believed in Christ, till the Pope could send to them? And how should these and all such Countries send Bishops to a General Council?
Nunc vero aperta jam Maritima ad Aethiopiam via, id praestare quod nequivit prius] that is, [The Pope of Rome who is the Pastor of the whole Church of Christ, was not able in the years past to send Doctors into Habassia, because the Mahomitans compassed all, and left not any passage to them. But now the seas are open, he can do that which he could not before] Liter. Gonzal. Roder. in Godign. de Reb. Abass. lib. 2. cap. 18. pag. 324. A fair answer. As if Christ had set either the Pope, or the Abassines an impossible task: and appointed a Governour that for so many hundred years could not govern: or the people must be so many hundred years no Christians, though they believed in Christ, till the Pope could send to them? And how should these and all such Countries send Bishops to a General Council?
As your own Canus Loc. Theol. saith of the Jesuits; so say I of your New Church [Vocati estis ad secietatem Jesu Christi, quae sine dubio societas cum Christi Ecclesia sit, qui titulum sibi illum arrogant, hi videant, an Haereticorum more penes see Ecclesiam existere mentiantur. i. e. You are called to the society of Jesus Christ, which society being undoubtedly the Church of Christ, let them see to it, that arrogate this title to themselves, whether they do not imitate heretics ⟨p. 256⟩by a Lying affirmation that the Church is only with them. lib. 4. c. 2. fol. (mihi) 116.