A26947:1215
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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A fifth sort called Seekers also there are, that own the Church ⟨p. 334⟩and Ministry, and Ordinances; but yet suppose themselves above them: for they think that these are but the Administrations of Christ to men in the passage to a higher state, and that such as have received the Spirit, and have the Law once written in their hearts, are under (as they call it) the second Covenant, and so are past the lower form of Ordinances, Scripture, Ministry, and visible Churches.
A fifth sort called Seekers also there are, that own the Church ⟨p. 334⟩and Ministery, and Ordinances; but yet suppose themselves above them: for they think that these are but the Administrations of Christ to men in the passage to a higher state, and that such as have received the Spirit, and have the Law once written in their hearts, are under (as they call it) the second Covenant, and so are past the lower form of Ordinances, Scripture, Ministery, and visible Churches.
And a sixth sort of Seekers there are that think the whole company of believers should now be over-grown the Scripture, Ministry and Ordinances: For they think that the Law was the Fathers Administration, and the Gospel Ministry and Sacraments are the Sons Administration, and that both these are now past, and the season of the Spirits Administration is come, which all must attend, and quit the lower forms. The David-Georgians were the chief that taught the world this lesson, their Leader taking himself to be the Holy Ghost. All these sorts of Seekers are bred or cherished by the Jesuits and Friars. And the truth is, when a man is made a Seeker, he is half made a Papist: As a Dog when he hath lost his Master will follow almost any body that will whistle him; so when men have lost their Ministry, Church and Religion, they are easily allured to the Church of Rome: For they are a body as conspicuous to a carnal eye as any other. And who will not rather be of the Roman Church and Religion then of none?