A26947:1213
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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3. Another sort of Seekers are those that do not only Doubt of, but flatly deny any Ministry, and Political Churches, and Church-ordinances on Earth, as things that are lost in an Universal Apostasy.
3. Another sort of Seekers are those that do not only Doubt of, but flatly deny any Ministry, and Political Churches, and Church-ordinances on Earth, as things that are lost in an Universal Apostacy.
4. Another sort of Seekers do not only doubt of, or deny these Particular Churches and Ordinances, but also they are to seek for the Universal Church it self, and the holy Scriptures; yea many of them not only Questioning them, but flatly maintaining, that we have no certainty that the Scripture is true, or that we have the same that was written by the Apostles, or that there is such a thing as true Ministry, or State of Christianity in the World. Hence it is that some of them pour out so many reproaches against the Ministry and the Holy Scriptures, as you may find in Clem. Writer, in two ignorant Pamphlets, that have scorn in the very Titles, as well as through the bulk; one called, The Jus Divinum of Presbytery; and the other Fides Divina: In which he maintaineth the cause of the Infidels. The opinion which this sort of men openly profess, is, that no particular man is bound to believe the Gospel, but those that have themselves seen Miracles to confirm it: and therefore in the first ages when Miracles were wrought, those that saw them were bound to believe in Christ, and at the second coming of Christ, when again he shall be witnessed by Miracles, it will again become a duty to be Christians: but not to others that see no Miracles, however they may hear of them. This doctrine Clem. Writer hath professed to me with his own mouth. But I may not censure him to be so weak as to believe himself. It's possible that such a silly soul may be found, that shall think that Christ came into the world to set up Christianity as the true Religion for those only in an Age or two, or more, that saw Miracles; but it's unlikely that a man that hath any considerable use of his reason should be so silly. Who will not despise Christ that thinks he came on so low a design? Who would not be an Infidel, that thinks ten thousand Infidels are saved for one Christian? Yea who can be himself a Christian, that thinks that he is not bound to be a Christian, because he sees not Miracles? It's most evident therefore that this is but a Juggle, and that such are either Infidels or Papists. Infidelity is the thing professed, and therefore that we take them for Infidels, they cannot blame us: But yet in Charity I hope (and not without cause) that some of this Profession are but Papists; though others I have found to be desperate Infidels.