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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
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9. The Protestants say, that all our best works are imperfect, and the sin that adhereth to them deserves Gods wrath, according to the Law of works, though he pardon it by the Law of Grace: and that when we have done all, we are unprofitable servants, and properly Merit nothing of God for the worth of our works, or in Commutative Justice. But the Papists take those very works to Merit heaven, ex Condigno, and (for here they are by the ears again) say some of them, by the Proportion of the work, and in Commutative Justice, which the Protestants say, deserve damnation for their sinful imperfections, and therefore ⟨p. 276⟩need a pardon through the blood of Christ. Yea they take these works to be perfect, and the man to be perfect, and say, that by such works as these, they may Merit for others as well as for themselves. And how easy and pleasing is this to proud corrupted Nature?
9. The Protestants say, that all our best works are imperfect, and the sin that adhereth to them deserves Gods wrath, according to the Law of works, though he pardon it by the Law of Grace: and that when we have done all, we are unprofitable servants, and properly Merit nothing of God for the worth of our works, or in Commutative Justice. But the Papists take those very works to Merit heaven, ex Condigno, and (for here they are by the ears again) say some of them, by the Proportion of the work, and in Commutative Justice, which the Protestants say, deserve damnation for their sinful imperfections, and therefore ⟨p. 276⟩need a pardon through the blood of Christ. Yea they take these works to be perfect, and the man to be perfect, and say, that by such works as these, they may Merit for others as well as for themselves. And how easie and pleasing is this to proud corrupted Nature?
10. The Protestants think, that no Faith Justifieth, but that which is accompanied with unfeigned Love and Resolution for Obedience. But the Papists make Faith that's separated from Charity, and joined with Attrition, to be sufficient for admission to the Sacrament, which shall be instead of Love or Contrition, and so shall put away all sin.