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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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I will recite no more: Judge now by such passage as these, how Christ sets by one of the least of his servants: and consequently, how he will take it of you, to judge the far greatest part of his Church to be graceless and none of his Church, but such as shall be damned. And if you dare not venture on so unreasonable and inhumane a censure, against the experience of so much holiness as appeareth in them before your eyes, then you cannot be Papists: And if you dare venture on it, I leave you to consider, whether under pretence of being the only Christians, you have not done violence to the common reason and nature of man. So much for the second proof of the Minor.
3. But I have yet another proof, that many that are no Papists are good Christians, and consequently, that Popery is a deceit, and that is the Testimony of many of their own Writers. I will not call for their testimony concerning our selves (for we know our selves better then they do) but concerning other Churches whom they condemn as Heretics, or that are no subjects of the Pope of Rome. And I will at this time content my self with one of many that might be cited; and that is a Monk, Burchardus that lived in the Holy Land, and having wrote a Description of it, and those that inhabit it, saith of them as followeth, p. 325, 326. [And for those that we judge to be damned Heretics, as the Nestorians, Jacobites, Maronites, Georgians, and the like, I found them to be for the most part good and simple men, and living sincerely toward God and men; they are of great abstinence, &c.
3. But I have yet another proof, that many that are no Papists are good Christians, and consequently, that Popery is a deceit, and that is the Testimony of many of their own Writers. I will not call for their testimony concerning our selves (for we know our selves better then they do) but concerning other Churches whom they condemn as Hereticks, or that are no subjects of the Pope of Rome. And I will at this time content my self with one of many that might be cited; and that is a Monk, Burchardus that lived in the Holy Land, and having wrote a Description of it, and those that inhabit it, saith of them as followeth, p. 325, 326. [And for those that we judge to be damned Hereticks, as the Nestorians, Jacobites, Maronites, Georgians, and the like, I found them to be for the most part good and simple men, and living sincerely toward God and men; they are of great abstinence, &c.