A26947:369
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.
2. And then concerning Tradition, we grant all these following Propositions, (so that it is not all Tradition that we deny.)
1. We grant that the Holy Scriptures come down to us by the certain Tradition of our fathers and Teachers; and that what the seeing and hearing of the Apostles was to them that lived with them, that Tradition and belief of certain Tradition is to us, by reason of our distance from the time and place: So that though the Scripture bear its own evidence of a Divine author, in the Image and superscription of God upon it, yet we are beholden to Tradition for the Books themselves, and for much of our knowledge that these are the true writings of the Apostles and Prophets, and all, and not depraved, &c.
2. We thankfully acknowledge that the Essentials of the faith, (and more) hath been delivered even from the Apostles in other ways or forms, besides the Scriptures: as 1. In the Professions of the Churches faith. 2. In the baptismal Covenant and signs, and whole administration. 3. In the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. 4. In Catechisms or Catechizings. 5. In the prayers and praises of the Church. 6. In the hearts of all true believers, where God hath written all the Essentials of the Christian saith and Law: So that we will not do as the Papists perversely do: when God delivereth us the Christian Religion with two hands, Scripture (completely) and Verbal Tradition, (in the essentials) they quarrel with the one hand (Scripture) on pretence of defending the other: so will not we quarrel with Tradition (the other hand:) but thankfully confess a Tradition of the same Christianity by unwritten means, which is delivered more fully in the Scripture: and this Tradition is in some respect subordinate to Scripture, and in some respect co-ordinate, as the spirits left hand as it were, to hold us out the truth.