A27045:54
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members…
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far heretics are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far hereticks are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1660
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14. They are Enemies to common Honesty, teaching the Doctrines of Equivocations and Mental Reservations, and making many heinous sins venial, and many of the most odious sins to be Duties, as killing Kings that are excommunicated by the Pope, taking Oaths with the foresaid Reservations, and breaking them, &c. For the Jesuits Doctrine, Montaltus the Jansenist, and many of the French Clergy have pretty well opened it: And the Pope himself hath lately been fain to publish a condemnation of their Apology. And yet the power and interest of the Jesuits and their followers among them, is not altogether unknown to the World.
14. They are Enemies to common Honesty, teaching the Doctrines of Equivocations and Mental Reservations, and making many hainous sins venial, and many of the most odious sins to be Duties, as killing Kings that are excommunicated by the Pope, taking Oaths with the foresaid Reservations, and breaking them, &c. For the Jesuits Doctrine, Montaltus the Jansenist, and many of the French Clergy have pretty well opened it: And the Pope himself hath lately been fain to publish a condemnation of their Apology. And yet the power and interest of the Jesuites and their followers among them, is not altogether unknown to the World.
15. They are Enemies to Civil Peace and ⟨p. 23⟩Government, (if there be any such in the World) as their Doctrine and Practice of killing and deposing excommunicate Princes, breaking Oaths, &c. shows. Bellarmine that will go a middle way, gives the Pope power in ordine ad spiritualia, and indirectly, to dispose of Kingdoms, and tells us, that it is unlawful to tolerate Heretical Kings that propagate their Heresy, (that is, the ancient Faith.) How well Doctor Heylin hath vindicated their Council of Lateran in this, (whose Decrees stand as a Monument of the horrid treasonable Doctrine of the Papists) I shall, if God will, hereafter manifest: In the mean time, let any man read the words of the Council, and Judge.