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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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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 ⟨p. 68⟩thought so, but so did not several General Councils: was the Catholic Church Representative at the Council of Basil, or Constance, or Pisa in a state of death and damnation for believing the Pope to be subject to a General Council? or was the Council at Lateran (another Representative Catholic Church) in a state of death for holding the Contrary? Must either Pope John the twenty second, or Pope Nicolas be damned because of the contrariety of their Decrees? If the Council of Toletane the first ordain that he that hath a Concubine instead of a wife, shall not be kept from the Sacrament, doth it prove them all in a state of death? If Bellarmine confess that the sixth General Council at Constantinople have many errors, doth it follow that the Catholic Church representative was in a damnable state? If the second Council at Nice maintain the corporeity of Angels, and the first Council at the Lateran maintain the contrary, doth it follow that one of them was in a state of death? I think not: (though I am sure it proves a General Council fallible, when approved by the Pope, and therefore Popery a deceit.) Bellarmine sometime tells us of the change of his own mind.