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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. 6. We are agreed also, that all these Christians, and particular Churches, are obliged by Christ, even by the very Law of Nature, and the ends of their calling, and the General Laws of the Gospel, to live in as much Love, and Unity, and Peace as they can; and to hold as full and extensive communion as they can: that is, as far as their work requireth, and their Capacity will permit and enable them; those that are cohabitans and members of one Congregation, must hold local communion in that Congregation, unless Necessity prohibit. Those that through distance are uncapable of joining in the same Assemblies, should yet be conjoined, 1. In the same Lord, Faith, Baptism, Covenant, Profession. 2. In the same bond of Christian special Love. 3. In the use of the same sort of holy worship, as to the Substance, though they differ in circumstances, ⟨p. 399⟩as in the Word, Prayer, Praises, Sacraments, &c. 4. And in one sort of Church Officers and Government. And as far as we have to do with each other, all this should be manifested, and we should readily own one another as Brethren and true Churches, notwithstanding lesser differences.
Prop. 6. We are agreed also, that all these Christians, and particular Churches, are obliged by Christ, even by the very Law of Nature, and the ends of their calling, and the General Laws of the Gospell, to live in as much Love, and Unity, and Peace as they can; and to hold as full and extensive communion as they can: that is, as far as their work requireth, and their Capacity will permit and enable them; those that are cohabitans and members of one Congregation, must hold local communion in that Congregation, unless Necessity prohibite. Those that through distance are uncapable of joining in the same Assemblies, should yet be conjoined, 1. In the same Lord, Faith, Baptism, Covenant, Profession. 2. In the same bond of Christian special Love. 3. In the use of the same sort of holy worship, as to the Substance, though they differ in circumstances, ⟨p. 399⟩as in the Word, Prayer, Praises, Sacraments, &c. 4. And in one sort of Church Officers and Government. And as far as we have to do with each other, all this should be manifested, and we should readily own one another as Brethren and true Churches, notwithstanding lesser differences.