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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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But if they would yield to the Validity of this proof, then they give away their cause, seeing sense telleth us that it is bread which we see, and feel, and eat after the Consecration. They know this; and therefore they must disown and deny this sort of proof.
2. But will they then admit of Proofs from Reason? No, that cannot be, if proof from sense be not admitted. For Reason receiveth its object by means or occasion of the senses, and must ⟨p. 42⟩needs be deceived if it be deceived: And Reason hath not a principle that it holds faster, then that sense is to be credited; that this is white or black which my own eyes and the eyes of all other men do see to be so: and so that this is bread which we all see, and feel, and taste to be so. And therefore the Papists tell us that Reason must stoop to faith, that is, they will not stand to Reason when it contradicteth the doctrine of their sect. It seems they are in some parts of their Religion unreasonable. But I would know, whether they have any Reason to be unreasonable. If they have, then why might not our Reason be valid as well as their Reason which they bring against Reason? by which they contradict themselves. For if Reason be vain, why Reason they to prove its Vanity or invalidity? But if they have no Reason against Reason, let them confess it, and offer us none, and then their disputes will do no harm. We easily yield, that we have Reason to believe Gods Revelations, about those things which we had no Reason to believe if they were not Revealed: And that many of those Revelations are above Reason, so far as that Reason cannot discern the truth of the thing without them; yea it would rather judge the things improbable: But yet Revelations are received by Reason, and inform Reason, and not destroy it; nor do they so contradict Sense or Reason, as to make that credible which Sense and Reason have sufficient ground to judge false.