A26947:1066
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.
You see here the Council curseth all those as intolerable Liars, that say the Lords prayer, desiring him daily to forgive or remit their sins, and yet think that they have no sins to forgive, yea or that every Saint hath not such sins. What can a Papist say to this, but by making Councils as void of sense, as they feign the holy Scriptures to be?
You see here the Council curseth all those as intolerable Lyars, that say the Lords prayer, desiring him daily to forgive or remit their sins, and yet think that they have no sins to forgive, yea or that every Saint hath not such sins. What can a Papist say to this, but by making Councils as void of sence, as they feign the holy Scriptures to be?
Hus twelfth and last Accusation is this [The Scripture saith, that Blessedness in the Reward, the Prize, the Penny, the wages of Labourers, and the Crown of Righteousness: you contend that its merely the free gift of God, and not a Reward, which no Scripture doth affirm]
Hus twelfth and last Accusation is this [The Scripture saith, that Blessedness in the Reward, the Prize, the Penny, the wages of Labourers, and the Crown of Righteousness: you contend that its meerly the free gift of God, and not a Reward, which no Scripture doth affirm]
Answ. A mere Calumny, and perverting of Calvins words, who often saith, as we constantly do, that Eternal life is given as a Reward and Crown of Righteousness. But we distinguish between the Act of God in his Gospel Promise, which is a Conditional Deed of Gift of Christ and Life to all that will Accept them, and the execution of this by Judgement and Glorification. And ⟨p. 291⟩we say that it was Antecedenter merely of Gods free Grace that he made such a Deed of Gift (the blood of Christ being the purchasing cause,) and nothing of our works had a hand in the procurement (Dare you deny this?) But that our Justification in Judgement, and our Glorification, which are the Execution of the Law of Grace, do make our works the Reason; not as having merited it ex proportione operis, or in Commutative Justice, but as having performed the condition of the free Gift, and so being the persons to whom it doth belong. And this is the sense of Scotus and of one half of the Papists, (for still you are together by the ears) who say that Merit of Condignity is but ex pacto by virtue of Gods Promise.