A26947:160
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.
But perhaps some will say, that the Pope was holy because his Office was Holy, though his person vicious. Ans. 1. If this be the Holiness of the Catholic Church, mentioned in the Creed, then the Institution of offices is it that makes it Holy, and while the office continueth, the Holiness cannot be lost. 2. Then let them prove their Holiness by Saints no more. 3. Let them not then delude the people, but speak out, and tell them that they mean such Holiness as is consistent with Heathenism, or Infidelity, Murders, Sodomy, and may be in an incarnate Devil! Is this the Holiness of the Catholic Church?
But perhaps some will say, that the Pope was holy because his Office was Holy, though his person vicious. Ans. 1. If this be the Holiness of the Catholick Church, mentioned in the Creed, then the Institution of offices is it that makes it Holy, and while the office continueth, the Holiness cannot be lost. 2. Then let them prove their Holiness by Saints no more. 3. Let them not then delude the people, but speak out, and tell them that they mean such Holiness as is consistent with Heathenism, or Infidelity, Murders, Sodomie, and may be in an incarnate Devil! Is this the Holiness of the Catholick Church?
Object. But you may have unholy persons among you also, that yet say you are of the true Church.
Answ. But they are no Essential part of the Catholic Church which we believe; and therefore it may be a Holy Church, though they be unholy. But the Pope is an Essential part of the Roman Church which they believe in; and therefore it can not be Holy, if he be unholy.
Answ. But they are no Essential part of the Catholick Church which we believe; and therefore it may be a Holy Church, though they be unholy. But the Pope is an Essential part of the Roman Church which they believe in; and therefore it can not be Holy, if he be unholy.