A26947:1064
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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4. But if you speak not of the sense of a particular Text, but of the Matter in difference, it can be nothing but the habit of sin that you mean, that we say, that God takes not away. And here you play partly the Calumniators, and partly the erroneous Pharisees. 1. You Calumniate, in feigning us to deny, that habitual sin is done away. Because our Divines say, that it is not the work of mere pardon (which we call Justification) to put it away, therefore you falsely say, that we hold it is not put away at all: whereas we hold (without one contradicting vote that ever I read or heard) that all that are Justified, are Sanctified, Converted, Regenerate, Renewed, and must live an holy life: And that all their sins are so far destroyed, that they shall not have dominion over them: that Gross and Wilful sin they forsake, and the least infirmities, they groan, and pray, and strive against to the last, and then obtain a perfect conquest. 2. But if you mean, that no degree of habitual or dispositive sin, or absence of holy qualities remaineth in the Justified soul, it is a Pharisaical error, yea worse then a Pharisee durst have owned. And it seems this is your meaning, by the words of Calvins which you cite. ⟨p. 290⟩And dare you say that you have no sin to resist, or purge, or pardon? Are you in Heaven already? The whole have no need of the Physician, but the sick: and have you no need of Christ to heal your soul? would you be no better then you are? O proud souls! and strange to themselves and the purity of the Law! Hath not the Holy Ghost pronounced him a Liar and Self-deceiver, that saith he hath no sin, 1 Joh. 1. 8. 10. In many things we offend all, Jam. 3. 2. I shall but recite to you two Canons of a Council, which if you use the Lords prayer, are fit for you to consider. Concil. Milevit. cont. Pelagianos Can. 7. [Item placuit, ut quicunque dixerit in Oratione Dominica ideo dicere sanctos, Dimitte nobis Debita nostra, ut non pro seipsis hoc dicant, quia non est e• jam necessaria ista, sed pro aliis, qui sunt in suo populo peccatores, & ideo non dicere unumquemque sanctorum, Dimitte mihi debita mea; sed Dimitte nobis debita nostra, ut hoc pro aliis potius quam pro se Justus petere intelligatur, Anathema sit.