A26947:947
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.
Your common shift (which Canus ibid. and others fly to) is, that He must be a judged Heretic before he is dismembered. But 1. Sure that is but for manifestation to men; for before God he is the same, if men never judge him. 2. Where the case is notorious, ⟨p. 257⟩the offender is ipso jure cut off. 3. Then it is in the Popes Power to let whole millions of Heretics to be still parts of the Church. And so the world shall be Christians or no Christians as he please: and why may he not let Turks and Infidels on the same grounds be parts of the Church? For he may forbore to judge them, if that will serve. 4. Then all the Christians in the world that the Pope hath not yet judged and cast out, are members of the Church: And then millions and millions are of the Church that never were subjects of the Pope. If you say, It is enough that there is a General condemnation of all that are guilty as they are: I answer, then it is enough to cut off a Pope, that there was a General condemnation against such as he.
Your common shift (which Canus ibid. and others fly to) is, that He must be a judged Heretick before he is dismembred. But 1. Sure that is but for manifestation to men; for before God he is the same, if men never judge him. 2. Where the case is notorious, ⟨p. 257⟩the offendor is ipso jure cut off. 3. Then it is in the Popes Power to let whole millions of Hereticks to be still parts of the Church. And so the world shall be Christians or no Christians as he please: and why may he not let Turks and Infidels on the same grounds be parts of the Church? For he may forbare to judge them, if that will serve. 4. Then all the Christians in the world that the Pope hath not yet judged and cast out, are members of the Church: And then millions and millions are of the Church that never were subjects of the Pope. If you say, It is enough that there is a General condemnation of all that are guilty as they are: I answer, then it is enough to cut off a Pope, that there was a General condemnation against such as he.