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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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3. Understand well what is the Catholic Church, that when the Papists ask you what Church you are of, or call to you to prove its antiquity or truth, you may give them a sound and Catholic answer. The Catholic Church is the whole number of true Christians upon earth (for we meddle not now with that part which is in Heaven.) It is not tied to Protestants only, nor to the Greeks only, much less to the Romanists only, or to any other party whatsoever; but it comprehendeth all the members of Christ; and as visible, it containeth all that profess the Christian Religion by a credible profession. If the Christian Religion may be known, then a man may know that he is a Christian, and consequently a member of the Catholic Church. But if the Christian Religion cannot be known, then no man can ⟨p. 8⟩know which is the Church, or which is a Christian. All Christians united to Christ the Head, are this Catholic Church. If you tie the Church to your own party, and make a wrong description of it, you will ensnare your selves, and spoil your belief, and your defence of it.
3. Understand well what is the Catholick Church, that when the Papists ask you what Church you are of, or call to you to prove its antiquity or truth, you may give them a sound and Catholick answer. The Catholick Church is the whole number of true Christians upon earth (for we meddle not now with that part which is in Heaven.) It is not tyed to Protestants only, nor to the Greeks only, much less to the Romanists only, or to any other party whatsoever; but it comprehendeth all the members of Christ; and as visible, it containeth all that profess the Christian Religion by a credible profession. If the Christian Religion may be known, then a man may know that he is a Christian, and consequently a member of the Catholick Church. But if the Christian Religion cannot be known, then no man can ⟨p. 8⟩know which is the Church, or which is a Christian. All Christians united to Christ the Head, are this Catholick Church. If you tye the Church to your own party, and make a wrong description of it, you will ensnare your selves, and spoil your belief, and your defence of it.