A26947:1361
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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Hickman the bread he eats, nor the money he receives, as if it were yours, till we can have license to be ⟨p. 386⟩maintained Rectors, or at least to escape the Strappado in your Church.
But I promised you some more of Grotius in English to stop your mouth, (or open it whether you see cause:) and you shall have it. Discus. pag. 14. [Grotius distinguisheth between the Opinions of Schoolmen, which oblige no man (for, saith Melchior Canus, our School alloweth us great liberty) and therefore could give no just cause of departing (as the Protestants did;) and between those things that are defined by Councils, even by that of Trent: The Acts of which if any man read with a mind propense to peace, he will find that they may be explained fitly and agreeably to the places of the holy Scriptures, and of the ancient Doctors, that are put in the Margin. And if besides this, by the care of Bishops and Kings, those things be taken away which contradict that holy doctrine, and were brought in by evil manners, and not by authority of Councils, or Old Tradition, then Grotius, and many more with him, will have that with which they may be content.] This is Grotius in English. Reader, is it not plain English? Durst thou or I have been so uncharitable as to have said without his own consent, that Mr. Pierce would have defended this Religion, and that we have Rectors in England of this Religion? and that those that call themselves Episcopal Divines, and seduce unstudied partial Gentlement, are crept into this garb, and in this do act their parts so happily? If words do signify any thing, it here appears, that Grotius his Religion is that which is contained in the Council of Trent with all the rest, and the reformation which will content him is only against undetermined School-Opinions, and ill manners that Cross the doctrines of the Councils. I'll do the Papists so much right as to say I never met with a man of them that would not say as much: Especially taking in all Old Tradition with all the Councils (how much together by the ears, now matters not) as Grotius doth.
But I promised you some more of Grotius in English to stop your mouth, (or open it whether you see cause:) and you shall have it. Discus. pag. 14. [Grotius distinguisheth between the Opinions of Schoolmen, which oblige no man (for, saith Melchior Canus, our School alloweth us great liberty) and therefore could give no just cause of departing (as the Protestants did;) and between those things that are defined by Councils, even by that of Trent: The Acts of which if any man read with a mind propense to peace, he will find that they may be explained fitly and agreeably to the places of the holy Scriptures, and of the ancient Doctors, that are put in the Margin. And if besides this, by the care of Bishops and Kings, those things be taken away which contradict that holy doctrine, and were brought in by evil manners, and not by authority of Councils, or Old Tradition, then Grotius, and many more with him, will have that with which they may be content.] This is Grotius in English. Reader, is it not plain English? Durst thou or I have been so uncharitable as to have said without his own consent, that Mr. Pierce would have defended this Religion, and that we have Rectors in England of this Religion? and that those that call themselves Episcopal Divines, and seduce unstudied partial Gentlement, are crept into this garb, and in this do act their parts so happily? If words do signifie any thing, it here appears, that Grotius his Religion is that which is contained in the Council of Trent with all the rest, and the reformation which will content him is only against undetermined School-Opinions, and ill manners that Cross the doctrines of the Councils. I'le do the Papists so much right as to say I never met with a man of them that would not say as much: Especially taking in all Old Tradition with all the Councils (how much together by the ears, now matters not) as Grotius doth.