A26947:1394
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 2
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Prop. 1. We are Agreed that Christ hath a true Catholic Church on earth, and ever hath had since first he planted it, and ever will have to the end of the world, and that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it, or hath it ever had an Intercision for a day or an hour: and that this Church is so far Infallible, as that it never was, nor ever will be ignorant of, or erroneous against any Article of faith, or part of obedience that is of absolute Necessity to salvation (otherwise by that error it should have ceased to be the Church of Christ.)
Prop. 1. We are Agreed that Christ hath a true Catholick Church on earth, and ever hath had since first he planted it, and ever will have to the end of the world, and that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it, or hath it ever had an Intercision for a day or an hour: and that this Church is so far Infallible, as that it never was, nor ever will be ignorant of, or erroneous against any Article of faith, or part of obedience that is of absolute Necessity to salvation (otherwise by that error it should have ceased to be the Church of Christ.)
Prop. 2. We are agreed that this Catholic Church in respect of the Internal faith and charity of the Members, and their Communion with Christ by the quickening Spirit on his part, and holy sincere returns of devotion on theirs, may be called, Mystical, or Invisible. The thing is utterly undeniable, though some Papists in the perverseness of contentious Disputations seem to deny it. And doubtless when they assert that Christ hath no Invisible Church, they must mean it simply, and not quoad haeo interiora, or else they speak against all sense and Reason. No man is simply Invisible: but every man as to his soul is Invisible.
Prop. 2. We are agreed that this Catholick Church in respect of the Internal faith and charity of the Members, and their Communion with Christ by the quickening Spirit on his part, and holy sincere returns of devotion on theirs, may be called, Mystical, or Invisible. The thing is utterly undenyable, though some Papists in the perversness of contentious Disputations seem to deny it. And doubtless when they assert that Christ hath no Invisible Church, they must mean it simply, and not quoad haeo interiora, or else they speak against all sense and Reason. No man is simply Invisible: but every man as to his soul is Invisible.