A26947:1304
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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2. If that cannot be attained, the next Degree desirable is, That we may hold a Catholic Christian Communion in several Assemblies, under several Pastors, acknowledging each other the true Churches of Christ and joining in Synods when there is need, or at least, giving each other, as Christian Brethren, the right hand of Fellowship.
2. If that cannot be attained, the next Degree desirable is, That we may hold a Catholick Christian Communion in several Assemblies, under several Pastors, acknowledging each other the true Churches of Christ and joining in Synods when there is need, or at least, giving each other, as Christian Brethren, the right hand of Fellowship.
3. If that may not be attained, the next Degree desirable is, That we may take one another for Christians and Churches of Christ, though under such corruptions as we think we are bound to disown by denying the present exercise of Communion: as we do with particular Offenders, whom we only suspend, but not condemn.
3. If that may not be attained, the next Degree desirable is, That we may take one another for Christians and Churches of Christ, though under such corruptions as we think we are bound to disown by denying the present exercise of Communion: as we do with particular Offendors, whom we only suspend, but not condemn.
4. If this much may not be had, but we will needs excommunicate each other absolutely, the next degree of Peace desirable is, That we may at least so far regard the common truths that we are agreed upon, and the souls of the people, as to consult on certain terms on which we may most peaceably manage our differences, with the least hatred, and violence, and disturbance of the Peace of Christendom, and with the least impediment to the general success of those common truths that we are all agreed in.