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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
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And here you may see upon what terms we dispute with Papists, and what hope there is of satisfying them. We dispute with men that will not believe their own senses, or the senses of the world. The damned man, Luk. 16. thought if one might have been sent to his brethren from the dead, they would have believed. And if Abraham say to them, If they will not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead; we may say of Papists, sure, if they will not believe their own eyes, and ears, and taste, and know not bread when they see, and feel, and eat it, how should they be persuaded, though one were sent to them from heaven to resolve them? Can we think by all our Arguments to make any matter plainer to a man then that Bread is Bread, when he seeth and eateth it? If this be uncertain to them, what can you prove to them, or what way can you devise to deal with them? For indeed, if sense be uncertain, we have no certainty of any thing in the world.
And here you may see upon what terms we dispute with Papists, and what hope there is of satisfying them. We dispute with men that will not believe their own senses, or the senses of the world. The damned man, Luk. 16. thought if one might have been sent to his brethren from the dead, they would have believed. And if Abraham say to them, If they will not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be perswaded though one rise from the dead; we may say of Papists, sure, if they will not believe their own eyes, and ears, and taste, and know not bread when they see, and feel, and eat it, how should they be perswaded, though one were sent to them from heaven to resolve them? Can we think by all our Arguments to make any matter plainer to a man then that Bread is Bread, when he seeth and eateth it? If this be uncertain to them, what can you prove to them, or what way can you devise to deal with them? For indeed, if sense be uncertain, we have no certainty of any thing in the world.
But to this H. T. (they say H. Turbervile) in his Manual of Controversies saith thus. [Answ. Substance is not the proper and immediate object of sense, but colour, quantity, &c. Nor can sense judge at all of substance though it be under sensible accidents, unless it be the subject of those accidents, and have a sensible and corporal manner of being, which the Body of Christ neither is, nor hath in that Sacrament. It hath a spiritual manner of being, and is not the subject of the accidents of bread; they are without a subject by Miracle; therefore no wonder, if sense be deceived in this matter. Here Sense and Reason must veil bonnet to faith, and submit to the Authority of God revealing, and the Church propounding; they are no competent Judges what God can do by his Omnipotence.] Thus H. T.