A26947:1152
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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Their common instance is, [The Scripture no where calls it self the whole word of God; nor no where tells us which be Canonical Books, &c. and yet these are Articles of Faith.] Answ. 1. The Scripture doth call it self the Word of God, and signify its own sufficiency, and several Books have particular testimonies to be Canonical. 2. Though secondarily so far as Scripture affirmeth its own Divinity, it be to be believed: yet Primarily, that this is Gods Word, and that these are the Books, and that they are not corrupted, and that they are all, &c. are points of knowledge antecedent in order of nature to Divine Belief of them. There are two great Foundations antecedent to the Matter of Divine Faith. The one is Gods veracity; that God cannot lie: The other is, His Revelations; that This is Gods Word: The first is the Formal Object of Faith: The second is a Necessary Medium between the formal object and the subject; sine quo non, without which there is no possibility of Believing. The Material ⟨p. 311⟩object called the Articles of Faith, presuppose both these, as points of Knowledge, proved to us by their proper evidence. And that this is All the Word of God, is a mere Consequence, from the actual Tradition of this much and no more.
Their common instance is, [The Scripture no where calls it self the whole word of God; nor no where tells us which be Canonical Books, &c. and yet these are Articles of Faith.] Answ. 1. The Scripture doth call it self the Word of God, and signifie its own sufficiency, and several Books have particular testimonies to be Canonical. 2. Though secondarily so far as Scripture affirmeth its own Divinity, it be to be beleived: yet Primarily, that this is Gods Word, and that these are the Books, and that they are not corrupted, and that they are all, &c. are points of knowledge antecedent in order of nature to Divine Belief of them. There are two great Foundations antecedent to the Matter of Divine Faith. The one is Gods veracity; that God cannot lie: The other is, His Revelations; that This is Gods Word: The first is the Formal Object of Faith: The second is a Necessary Medium between the formal object and the subject; sine quo non, without which there is no possibility of Believing. The Material ⟨p. 311⟩object called the Articles of Faith, presuppose both these, as points of Knowledge, proved to us by their proper evidence. And that this is All the Word of God, is a meer Consequence, from the actual Tradition of this much and no more.