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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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12. They set up not only a Controverted head, which all the Churches never agreed to, nor ever will do, but also a false usurping Head, which the Churches dare not and ought not to unite in. Whereas Jesus Christ is beyond controversy ⟨p. 56⟩the just and lawful Head of the Church.
12. They set up not only a Controverted head, which all the Churches never agreed to, nor ever will do, but also a false usurping Head, which the Churches dare not and ought not to unite in. Whereas Jesus Christ is beyond controversie ⟨p. 56⟩the just and lawfull Head of the Church.
13. Your Agreement and Unity is with none but your own sect: and is this so great a matter to boast off? you divide your selves from most of the Catholic Church, and cast them off as Heretics, or Schismatics; and then boast of a Unity among your selves. And so may the Quakers, the Anabaptists, the Socinians, as well as you: Or if you magnify your Unity from the greatness of your number that agree, the Greek Church also is numerous: and yet in this we far exceed you. For the true Catholic is in Union with all the Members of Christ on earth. We lay our Unity on the Essentials of Christianity, and so are united with all true Christians in the world: even with many of them that reproach us: when you laying your Unity on I know not how many doubtful points, yea, on you know not what your selves, can extend it no further then to your sect. Which is the more notable and glorious Unity? to be United to the truly Catholic body, containing all true Christians in the world, or to be at Unity with a sect, which is the lesser and more corrupted part of the Church?
13. Your Agreement and Unity is with none but your own sect: and is this so great a matter to boast off? you divide your selves from most of the Catholick Church, and cast them off as Hereticks, or Schismaticks; and then boast of a Unity among your selves. And so may the Quakers, the Anabaptists, the Socinians, as well as you: Or if you magnifie your Unity from the greatness of your number that agree, the Greek Church also is numerous: and yet in this we far exceed you. For the true Catholick is in Union with all the Members of Christ on earth. We lay our Unity on the Essentials of Christianity, and so are united with all true Christians in the world: even with many of them that reproach us: when you laying your Unity on I know not how many doubtfull points, yea, on you know not what your selves, can extend it no further then to your sect. Which is the more notable and glorious Unity? to be United to the truly Catholick body, containing all true Christians in the world, or to be at Unity with a sect, which is the lesser and more corrupted part of the Church?