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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 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.
And now I appeal to all the impartial Reason in the world, whether your voluminous, apocriphal, 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, levaing the final full Decision of all to the Eternal Judge that is even at the door.
11. Yea and is not Gods hand of Judgement yet more observable against you, that when your Popes and Councils have past their judgement, the several Sects are unable to understand them? witness the late sentence against the Jansenists, of which the persons that seem to be condemned, say, that there is no such thing or words in all Jansenius writings, as the Pope saith are in him, and condemneth as his: and the Controversy is as far from a decision, as if the Pope had held his peace. Yea your great Disputer here in England, Thomas White the Novelist, is the same for all the Popes determination.
11. Yea and is not Gods hand of Judgement yet more observable against you, that when your Popes and Councils have past their judgement, the several Sects are unable to understand them? witness the late sentence against the Jansenists, of which the persons that seem to be condemned, say, that there is no such thing or words in all Jansenius writings, as the Pope saith are in him, and condemneth as his: and the Controversie is as far from a decision, as if the Pope had held his peace. Yea your great Disputer here in England, Thomas White the Novelist, is the same for all the Popes determination.