A26947:1322
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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CHAP. LIV.
THE fourth Degree of Peace desirable, whether the last mentioned be attained or not, is, [That we may so far lay by our hatred, wrath, and striving about the Controverted-points, as to consult together of the terms on which we may manage our ⟨p. 372⟩differences with the least disturbance to the Peace of Christendom, and the least disadvantage to the Truths that we are agreed in, and to the peoples souls.]
Religious Reason must needs confess the Reasonableness of this proposal in the General: But all the difficulty lieth in the particulars. If you ask me what the particular terms are on which we should agree, I answer, There are many at hand, that Reason must needs approve of; but because there is no likelihood of accepting them, I shall spare the labour of proposing them. And the rather, because we have much ado to agree on this much among our selves, or the Papists among themselves: with what hope can we move that the Agreement should be Universal? But this much I may propose, 1. That a Consultation of the Agents of Christian Princes and Divines might do much to further such a thing. And till that can be had, some few of the more Peaceable Princes and Divines should lead the way, and give the rest a good example. 2. And that an Universal Liberty of Conscience, with necessary restrictions, might be a probable way.
Religious Reason must needs confess the Reasonableness of this proposal in the General: But all the difficulty lyeth in the particulars. If you ask me what the particular terms are on which we should agree, I answer, There are many at hand, that Reason must needs approve of; but because there is no likelyhood of accepting them, I shall spare the labour of proposing them. And the rather, because we have much ado to agree on this much among our selves, or the Papists among themselves: with what hope can we move that the Agreement should be Universal? But this much I may propose, 1. That a Consultation of the Agents of Christian Princes and Divines might do much to further such a thing. And till that can be had, some few of the more Peaceable Princes and Divines should lead the way, and give the rest a good example. 2. And that an Universal Liberty of Conscience, with necessary restrictions, might be a probable way.