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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
17. Our Union is Divine, having a Divine Head and Centre, and Divine Doctrine and Law in which we agree. But the Papists is humane, having a carnal Head and Centre, and Humane Decrees and Canons for its matter and Rule.
17. Our Union is Divine, having a Divine Head and Center, and Divine Doctrine and Law in which we agree. But the Papists is humane, having a carnal Head and Center, and Humane Decrees and Canons for its matter and Rule.
18. They have not so sure a means of retaining men in their unity as we have: Let experience be Judge of this: For where one hath forsaken our Unity and Communion, I suppose hundreds, if not thousands, have forsaken theirs, as France, Belgia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. can witness: and if themselves might be believed, the Greek Church, and all, or almost all the Christians else in the world have gone from their unity. And yet will they glory in the effectualness of their means of unity? Why then did they not retain all these Nations in their unity?
18. They have not so sure a means of retaining men in their unity as we have: Let experience be Judge of this: For where one hath forsaken our Unity and Communion, I suppose hundreds, if not thousands, have forsaken theirs, as France, Belgia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Transilvania, England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. can witness: and if themselves might be believed, the Greek Church, and all, or almost all the Christians else in the world have gone from their unity. And yet will they glory in the effectualness of their means of unity? Why then did they not retain all these Nations in their unity?