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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.
We are confident of our own Religion, because we believe the Gospel: and we have no other Rule and Jest of our Religion: ⟨p. 2⟩And we are confident that Popery is a deceit, because we both believe the Gospel and the judgement of the ancient and present Churches, and because we believe our sense it self: As sure as we know Bread from Flesh, and Wine from Blood, by seeing, tasting, &c. so sure know we that Popery is false. And if a Controversy is not at an End when it is brought to the judgement of all the senses of all the sound men in the world (it being about the object of sense) then we are past hope of ending controversies: And therefore as we will not waste our time with every fellow that will dispute with us that Snow is black, or the Fire cold, no more will we trouble our selves with these men that tell us that Bread is not bread, and Wine is not wine.
We are confident of our own Religion, because we believe the Gospel: and we have no other Rule and Iest of our Religion: ⟨p. 2⟩And we are confident that Popery is a deceit, because we both believe the Gospel and the judgement of the ancient and present Churches, and because we believe our sense it self: As sure as we know Bread from Flesh, and Wine from Blood, by seeing, tasting, &c. so sure know we that Popery is false. And if a Controversie is not at an End when it is brought to the judgement of all the senses of all the sound men in the world (it being about the object of sense) then we are past hope of ending controversies: And therefore as we will not waste our time with every fellow that will dispute with us that Snow is black, or the Fire cold, no more will we trouble our selves with these men that tell us that Bread is not bread, and Wine is not wine.
And if you would know the Reasons of the confidence of the Papists, I know no more of them but what their Writings and speeches do express, and those I have hereafter given you. Two things they are still harping on: the first is, that in our way we have no assurance that the Christian Religion is true, or that Scripture is the word of God. Save me the labour of repetitions, and read but what I have written in the Preface to the second Part of the Saints Rest (Edit. 2. &c.) where I give you the Resolution of our faith, and in my Safe Religion, Disp. 3. and then believe them if thou canst.