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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 3
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Argum. 12. The Essence of the Church into which they were baptized, was part of the doctrine which the Catechumeni were taught, (and all at age should learn) before their baptism. The Sovereignty or Headship of Pope or Council was no part of the Doctrine which (by the Primitive Church) the Catechumeni were taught, and ought to learn, before their baptism. Therefore the Sovereignty or Headship of Pope or Council was not then taken to be of the Essence of the Church.
Argum. 12. The Essence of the Church into which they were baptized, was part of the doctrine which the Catechumeni were taught, (and all at age should learn) before their baptism. The Soveraignty or Headship of Pope or Council was no part of the Doctrine which (by the Primitive Church) the Catechumeni were taught, and ought to learn, before their baptism. Therefore the Soveraignty or Headship of Pope or Council was not then taken to be of the Essence of the Church.
The Major is evident, 1. In that the Catholic Church was in the Creed: and it's essentials there briefly expressed in those terms [Holy Catholic Church, and Communion of Saints.] 2. In that Church History fully acquainteth us that it was the practice of the Catethists and other Teachers to open the Creed to them before they baptized them, and therein the Article of the Catholic Church, and the Communion of Saints.
The Major is evident, 1. In that the Catholick Church was in the Creed: and it's essentials there briefly expressed in those terms [Holy Catholick Church, and Communion of Saints.] 2. In that Church History fully acquainteth us that it was the practice of the Catethists and other Teachers to open the Creed to them before they baptized them, and therein the Article of the Catholick Church, and the Communion of Saints.