A26947:161
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.
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.
Object. By this means you leave no room for the Church of Rome or any Papist in the Catholic Church which is truly Holy.
Object. By this means you leave no room for the Church of Rome or any Papist in the Catholick Church which is truly Holy.
Answ. Not as Papists: so they can be no members of it. But if with any of them Christianity be predominant, and prevail against the infection of Popery, so that it practically extinguish not Christianity, then as Christians they may be members of the Church, and be saved too, but not as Papists.