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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.
It would be a voluminous work to show you how all the Doctrines, Government, and worship of the Papists is suited to the humour of the sensual multitude, and fitted to take with ungodly men. I shall but instance in twenty particulars (which are far from all.)
It would be a voluminous work to shew you how all the Doctrines, Government, and worship of the Papists is suted to the humor of the sensual multitude, and fitted to take with ungodly men. I shall but instance in twenty particulars (which are far from all.)
1. The Reformed Catholics hold, that none should be taken into the Church by Baptism, unless themselves, or their Parents, if they be Infants, do make Profession of the Christian faith, and of an holy life, for the time to come, and seem to understand what they say and do, and be serious in it; which exasperateth the grossly ignorant and ungodly, when we deny them this Privilege of Believers. But the Papists admit of the ignorant, ungodly, and such as believe not explicitly in Christ, as you heard even now; and so please the people, and fill their Church.
1. The Reformed Catholicks hold, that none should be taken into the Church by Baptism, unless themselves, or their Parents, if they be Infants, do make Profession of the Christian faith, and of an holy life, for the time to come, and seem to understand what they say and do, and be serious in it; which exasperateth the grosly ignorant and ungodly, when we deny them this Priviledge of Believers. But the Papists admit of the ignorant, ungodly, and such as believe not explicitely in Christ, as you heard even now; and so please the people, and fill their Church.
2. The Orthodox hold, that Baptism giveth Remission of sin to none but true believers and their seed. The Papists persuade many millions more, that all their sins are not only pardoned, but actually abolished ex opere operato, in their Baptism, which is comfortable News to such ungodly souls.