A26947:1359
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
Quest. Whether the way to heal any Divisions in the Churches of Chr… › Chapter 1
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Pierces Translating faculty.) But here he hath a quarrel, and that so momentous, as to be ⟨p. 384⟩his grand, if not only instance of my misdealing; and so he hath written enough against the Contagion of my Volume! A happy generation! that can make what they will true or false by asserting it, and can give themselves the victory at their pleasure by triumphing, and by wiping their mouths, can make themselves innocent! and by saying any thing, or such a nothing as this, can prove Popery to be the Protestant Religion, and make many Worshipful Gentlemen of their mind, that were of their mind before they knew it, implicitly believing in them, and in their Church. Well: but what is my miscarriage? Why [the later part of these words, which are the chief, Mr. Baxter takes no notice of in the English account which he renders of them.] Answ. 1. He supposed that you and all that he wrote this for understood Latin, though in Answer to an English Cavil, he wrote his Discourse in English. And he that Translated none of the sentence, thought it no injury, to give account in English but of part. 2. But open your eyes, and look further into his words, and see whether you wrong him not, by leaving out the rest of his account, as much as he wronged Grotius: And look into your own advertisement, and see whether you recited not Grotius his words your self without a Translation, committing the same error which you reprehend, while you do reprehend it. But saith the Episcopal Divine, (for so he will needs be called) [He is deeply silent as to the causes of the breach which Grotius did wish might be taken away, and which he charged the Papists with.] Answ. 1. Was I deeply silent that Grotius would have the causes taken away? What! When I recite his very words? Or was I deeply silent of the particular causes? Do you mean Here, or Throughout? If Here, so I was deeply silent of ten thousand things more, which either it concerned me not to speak, or I had not the faculty of expressing in one sentence. If you mean Throughout, you read without your eyes, or wrote either with a defective Memory or Honesty. Read again, and you shall find that I recite the causes. 3. But did I not all that my task required, by reciting the Negation of the causes [It was not saith Grotius, the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome according to the Canons?]
Pierces Translating faculty.) But here he hath a quarrel, and that so momentous, as to be ⟨p. 384⟩