A26947:945
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.
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.
As your own Canus Loc. Theol. saith of the Jesuites; 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 se 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 hereticks ⟨p. 256⟩by a Lying affirmation that the Church is only with them. lib. 4. c. 2. fol. (mihi) 116.
But we do not hence conclude that all that have lived and dyed in your profession, have been no members of the Church, because that your Church is guilty of Heresy, and notoriously of Schism. For we know that millions that live among you consent not to your usurpations; Nay do not so much as understand your errors thereabout. And some hold them but Notionally as uneffectual Opinions: And every one is not a Heretic that holdeth a point that is judged Heretical, and which is Heresy in another that holdeth it in another sort. And there are errors called Heresies by most, which are not destructive to the Essentials of Christianity, but only to some Integral part. And there is a schism that doth not unchurch men, as well as a schism that doth (of which this is no place to treat.) But ad hominem, me thinks your own writers put you hard to it, who conclude (as Bellarmine and many more do, though Alphonsus à Castro and others be against it) that Heretics and Schismatics are no members of the Church. And Melch. Canus (Loc. Theol. lib. 4. cap. 2. fol. 117.) saith that [that Heretics are no parts of the Church, is the common conclusion of all Divines, not only of those that have written of late, but of them also that by their Antiquity are esteemed the most Noble; This is attested by Cyprian, Augustine, Gregory, the two Councils of Lateran and Florence: Rightly therefore did Pope Nicolas define that the Church is a collection of Catholics.] If this be true, it is an Article of faith: And then Alphonsus à Cast. and all of his mind are Heretics and lost men. And I pray you note what a case you are in. Two Approved General Councils have determined that a Heretic is no member of the Church: But multitudes of your own writers, and Pope Adrian, and many more of your Popes have judged that a Pope may be a Heretic: and consequently no member of the Church. And consequently judge whats become of your Church, when an Essential part of it is no part of the Church.