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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. 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.
Prop. 3. We are Agreed that this Catholic Church in regard of the outward Profession of this Inward Faith and Holiness, and in regard of the discernible numbers of persons making this Profession, hath ever been visible, since first it began to be visible: And that the visibility hath never had any intercision. If some Protestanss say otherwise, it's clear that this is all that by the common judgement of Protestants is maintained, viz. That Christians, and the Catholic Church containing the Professing Christians through the world, have ever since their first planting had a visible being; but yet 1. That the Visibility was not such but that Heretics (as the Arians did) might make a controversy of it, whether they, or the true Christians were the Church indeed, and by their greater numbers or Power might blind men, that they should not see which was the true Church. 2. And that in the Catholic Church some parts may ⟨p. 396⟩