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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
Chapter 12: The Three other Reasons for Popery answered briefly.
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.
How many Loads of Controversial Volumes are written by Papists against each other? And what heavy Charges of Simony, Filthiness, Heresy, &c. have even General Councils and Historians laid on the Popes and many Councils? And note, that the Pope or Council is the Essentiating Form of the Papal Church as such; and therefore an Unholy or Debauched, or Heretic Head, proveth that the Church is Unholy or Heretical: Because the Form denominateth; and is Essential. But it is ⟨p. 52⟩not so with the Protestants, that own no Universal Head but Christ, who is Infallible and perfect.
How many Loads of Controversal Volumes are written by Papists against each other? And what heavy Charges of Simony, Filthiness, Heresie, &c. have even General Councils and Historians laid on the Popes and many Councils? And note, that the Pope or Council is the Essentiating Form of the Papal Church as such; and therefore an Unholy or Debauch'd, or Heretick Head, proveth that the Church is Unholy or Heretical: Because the Form denominateth; and is Essential. But it is ⟨p. 52⟩not so with the Protestants, that own no Universal Head but Christ, who is Infallible and perfect.
This much I thought needful to add against them, that pretend an Institution of Christ, for a Political Universal Head, and a Foreign Jurisdiction; above a National Church or Christian Kingdom.
He that would compare Papists Errors with Protestants, let him read Chamier, Blondel de Ecclesia, Molinaeus of the Novelty of Popery, Rivet, Downame de Antichristo, Jewel, Whitaker, and other such.