A26947:1143
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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9. The Law of Nature is Gods Law, and the Light of Nature is his Revelation. And therefore that which the Light of Nature seeth immediately in Nature, or that which it seeth from Scripture and Nature compared together, and soundly concludeth from these premises, is truly a revelation from God.
10. The Conclusion followeth the more debile of the Premises, in point of evidence or certainty to us. Where Scripture is the more debile, there the conclusion is of Scripture faith: but where the fact or Proposition from the Light of Nature is more debile, there the conclusion is of Natural Evidence: But in both, of Divine discovery. For there is no Truth and Light but from God the Father of Lights. This is our judgement herein.
Now for the Papists, you may see their folly thus; 1. If nothing but the bare words of a Law may be heard in Trials, then all Laws in the world are void and vain. For the subjects be not all named in them; nor the fact-named: And what then have witnesses, and jurors, and judges to do? The Promise saith, He that believeth shall be saved: But it doth not say that Bellarmine ⟨p. 309⟩or Veronius believeth: Doth it follow, that therefore they may make no use of it for the comforting of their souls in the hopes of Salvation: The Threatening saith, that he that believeth not is condemned: But it saith not that such or such a man believeth not: should they not therefore fear the threatening?
Now for the Papists, you may see their folly thus; 1. If nothing but the bare words of a Law may be heard in Tryals, then all Laws in the world are void and vain. For the subjects be not all named in them; nor the fact-named: And what then have witnesses, and jurors, and judges to do? The Promise saith, He that believeth shall be saved: But it doth not say that Bellarmine