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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 perhaps you'll say, that though all that is de fide, be not necessary to be believed explicitly by all, yet implicitly it must. I Ans. 1. that which you call Implicit believing is no believing that point, but another point: yea a point that doth not so much as infer that: for it followeth not [the Church is infallible, therefore Christ descended into Hell.]
But perhaps you'l say, that though all that is de fide, be not necessary to be believed explicitely by all, yet implicitely it must. I Ans. 1. that which you call Implicite believing is no believing that point, but another point: yea a point that doth not so much as infer that: for it followeth not [the Church is infallible, therefore Christ descended into Hell.]
2. And we believe all that is de fide with an Implicit faith as well as you: But it is an Implicit Divine faith, and not humane: For we are sure that All that God saith is true; and this Divine veracity is the formal object of our faith. And we believe that all that is in Scripture is true, and that all that was ever delivered by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost is true.
2. And we believe all that is de fide with an Implicite faith as well as you: But it is an Implicite Divine faith, and not humane: For we are sure that All that God saith is true; and this Divine veracity is the formal object of our faith. And we believe that all that is in Scripture is true, and that all that was ever delivered by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost is true.
Object. But all that is de fide is so necessary, that it will not stand with salvation to believe the contrary, or deny or dis-believe any point of faith. Answ. 1. That cannot be true, For no man can prove that a point may not be denied and disputed against by a true Believer as long as he is ignorant that it is true, and from God: the same ignorance that keeps him from knowing it, may cause him to deny it, and gainsay it. 2. Do not your own differing Commentators, Schoolmen and Casuists (on one side at least) dispute voluminously against some Truths of Divine revelation? If you change a mans mind from the smallest error by dispute, do you take that to be a change of his state from death to life? Aeneas Sylvius thought a General Council was above the Pope: but when he came to be Pope Pins the second, he thought the Pope above a General Council; was this a change from death to life? It seems by his Bull of Retractation, he