A26947:389
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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4. There are so many carnal men in the world that love not the strictness of that doctrine which they do profess, and so many heretics that would pervert the Holy Doctrine, that it would purposely be altered by them if it could be done; and it ⟨p. 90⟩might much more easily be done, if it lay all upon mens memories: For one party would set their memory against the others, and (as it was about Easter a public matter of fact) tradition would be set against tradition: especially when the far greater part of the Church turn Heretics, as in the Arians days, then Tradition would be most at their keeping and interpretation; and if we had not then had the unalterable Scriptures, what might they not have done?
4. There are so many carnal men in the world that love not the strictness of that doctrine which they do profess, and so many hereticks that would pervert the Holy Doctrine, that it would purposely be altered by them if it could be done; and it ⟨p. 90⟩might much more easily be done, if it lay all upon mens memories: For one party would set their memory against the others, and (as it was about Easter a publick matter of fect) tradition would be set against tradition: especially when the far greater part of the Church turn Hereticks, as in the Arrians dayes, then Tradition would be most at their keeping and interpretation; and if we had not then had the unalterable Scriptures, what might they not have done?
5. A whole Body of Doctrine kept only in Memory, will be soon disjointed and dislocate; and if the matter were kept safe, yet the method and manner would be lost.
5. A whole Body of Doctrine kept only in Memory, will be soon disjoynted and dislocate; and if the matter were kept safe, yet the method and manner would be lost.