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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Consequence of the Major is past denyal. Bonum est ex causis integris. Though it will not follow that the Church is Holy, because one Essential part is Holy, yet it clearly followeth that the Church is unholy, because an Essential part is unholy. As it followeth not that the Body is sound, because the Head is sound; yet it followeth, that the man (or the body) is unsound or sick, because the Head is unsound or sick. As it is not a Church without all its Essential parts, so it is not an Holy Church without the Holiness of all its Essential parts.
And that they make the Pope the Head of the Catholic Church, and an Essential part, I am loth to prove; I would I could but entice them to deny it: for it is the principal controversy between them and the true Catholics.
And that they make the Pope the Head of the Catholike Church, and an Essential part, I am loth to prove; I would I could but entice them to deny it: for it is the principal controversie between them and the true Catholikes.
And that abundance of their Popes have been unholy, I have formerly proved, and they dare not I hope deny it; when their own Historians describe their Impieties, and their own Writers, even those that are bitterest against us, do freely confess it: yea General Councils have judged them and cast them out. The number of these Monsters is so great, that it would make a volume greater then I intend, but to name them and recite their crimes. I will give a brief instance of one of them.