A26947:1559
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 4 › Section
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1. THE first General Ground is this [Peace and Holiness must be carried on together: Yea Peace must be sought as a Means to Holiness: and therefore Holiness which is the End, must be preferred.] The wisdom that is from above, is first ⟨p. 441⟩Pure, then Peaceable, Gentle, easy to be entreated, &c. Jam. 3. A man may be saved that cannot attain Peace with men: and therefore we are commanded to seek it as an uncertain good, Rom. 12. 18. If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, live peaceably with all men: But no man can be saved without Holiness, Heb. 12. 14. Follow Peace with all men, and Holiness, without which no man shall see God. There is a kind of Unity among Devils. For if Satan were divided against Satan, how could his Kingdom stand? Mat. 12. There is a Peace in a state of misery and sin, which hindereth mens recovery. For when the strong man armed keeps his house, the things that he possesseth are in Peace. It is a state of greatest danger on earth to be United in evil, and to have Peace in a way of sin. And therefore it is no wonder if there be more lovers of Peace then of Holiness, and more that will cry out of our Divisions then of our ungodliness, and more that cry out of so many Religions, then of irreligiousness and ungodliness. For nature may make a man in love with Unity and Peace, but not with Holiness; for with that it is at Enmity. Hence it is that we hear so many Worldlings, Swearers, Drunkards, Whoremongers cry up unity, and cry down so many minds and ways: And hence it is that so many, such wicked livers do turn Papists on supposition that there is more unity with them. And so the Popish party among us are the sink into which the filth and excrements of our Churches are emptied.
1. THE first General Ground is this [Peace and Holiness must be carried on together: Yea Peace must be sought as a Means to Holiness: and therefore Holiness which is the End, must be preferred.] The wisdom that is from above, is first ⟨p. 441⟩