A26947:1068
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.
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.
Answ. A meer 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 meerly 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 handin 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 vertue of Gods Promise.