A26947:1060
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.
His tenth Accusation is [Scripture saith, that some that were illuminated and made partakers of the Holy Ghost, did fall, and crucify again to themselves the Son of God. But you defend, that whoever is once partaker of the Holy Ghost, cannot fall from his Grace: which Scripture speaketh not.]
His tenth Accusation is [Scripture saith, that some that were illuminated and made partakers of the Holy Ghost, did fall, and crucifie again to themselves the Son of God. But you defend, that whoever is once partaker of the Holy Ghost, cannot fall from his Grace: which Scripture speaketh not.]
Answ. The same again: and a mere untruth! We still maintain that those words of Scripture are of certain truth. But we distinguish between the common and the special gifts of the Spirit. The common gifts may be lost: we never denied it: The special gifts that accompany salvation, some of us judge are never lost: others of us think are left only by those that are not predestinate, as Austin thought, and your Dominicans think. And what cause is here of your quarrel?
Answ. The same again: and a meer untruth! We still maintain that those words of Scripture are of certain truth. But we distinguish between the common and the speciall gifts of the Spirit. The common gifts may be lost: we never denyed it: The special gifts that accompany salvation, some of us judge are never lost: others of us think are left only by those that are not predestinate, as Austin thought, and your Dominicans think. And what cause is here of your quarrell?
His eleventh Accusation is this [Scripture saith that God taketh away, and blotteth out our iniquity as a cloud: and puts our iniquities far from us, as the East is from the West, and maketh us as white as snow; You say, that he takes not away, nor blotteth out our sin, but only doth not impute it, and doth not make us white as snow, but leaveth in us the fault and uncleanness of sin: which Scripture no where speaks.]