A26947:1058
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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His ninth Accusation is this [Scripture saith, If thou will enter into life, keep the commandments: You say that there is no need of keeping the Commandments, and that he that saith, it doth deny Christ and abolish faith, of which the Scripture speaketh not a word.]
Answ. Still confusion plays your game, and you strive ⟨p. 288⟩about words. We distinguish between the keeping of that Law of Works, or Nature, which made perfect obedience the only condition of Life: and the keeping of the Law of Moses as such, and the keeping of the Law of Christ. For the two first, we say that no man can be justified by the works of the Law. Is this a doubt among Papists, that believe Pauls Epistles? But as for the Law of Christ, as such, we must endeavour to keep it perfectly (that's necessary necessitate praecepti;) and must needs keep it sincerely (necessitate medii) if we will be saved. This all Protestants that ever I spoke with are agreed in: And dare any Papist deny it? If we be not all (nor you neither) agreed on the sense of that text of Scripture, yet are we agreed on the doctrine, and yet you quarrel.
Answ. Still confusion playes your game, and you strive ⟨p. 288⟩about words. We distinguish between the keeping of that Law of Works, or Nature, which made perfect obedience the only condition of Life: and the keeping of the Law of Moses as such, and the keeping of the Law of Christ. For the two first, we say that no man can be justified by the works of the Law. Is this a doubt among Papists, that believe Pauls Epistles? But as for the Law of Christ, as such, we must endeavour to keep it perfectly (thats necessary necessitate praecepti;) and must needs keep it sincerely (necessitate medii) if we will be saved. This all Protestants that ever I spoke with are agreed in: And dare any Papist deny it? If we be not all (nor you neither) agreed on the sense of that text of Scripture, yet are we agreed on the doctrine, and yet you quarrel.