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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 if you knew them, yet what a loss are you at to know their Decrees and Canons? What a Fardel of false Decretal Epistles have you thrust upon the world, as Blondel, Dalleus, Reignolds and others have fully proved. Forsooth decretals that use a translation of the Scripture that was formed a long time after the death of the supposed Authors of those Epistles: And Decretals which make mention of persons and things that were many score or hundred years after the death of the said Authors. These are your new Scriptures, and by these our faith must be regulated, and our controversies decided.
And if you knew them, yet what a loss are you at to know their Decrees and Canons? What a Fardel of false Decretall Epistles have you thrust upon the world, as Blondell, Dalleus, Reignolds and others have fully proved. Forsooth decretals that use a translation of the Scripture that was formed a long time after the death of the supposed Authors of those Epistles: And Decretals which make mention of persons and things that were many score or hundred years after the death of the said Authors. These are your new Scriptures, and by these our faith must be regulated, and our controversies decided.
And your Canons are abundance of them as uncertain: some of your own will have but twenty Canons of the first General Council at Nice: some will have the new found rabble of additions. Much more uncertainty or certain forgery there is in the ⟨p. 50⟩Canons called the Apostles: and the like we may say of abundance more.
And now I appeal to all the impartial Reason in the world, whether your voluminous, apocryphal, uncertain faith that needs a living Judge, and cannot find one, or agree upon him, and that leaves your controversies still undecided, be a liker way to peace and unity, then our short and plain Articles and infallible Scripture faith, that hath less matter of contention, and better means to prevent it, even faithful Teachers and Judges in every Church and Commonwealth, which shall so far determine as may preserve the peace of those societies, leaving the final full Decision of all to the Eternal Judge that is even at the door.