A26947:39
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.
Well! Consider now whether any thing be easier then for a Protestant to show you a visible Church that hath successively been of his Religion.
Well! Consider now whether any thing be easier then for a Protestant to shew you a visible Church that hath successively been of his Religion.
1. The Christian Religion hath been in all ages since Christ in visible Societies: The Religion of Protestants is the Christian Religion: therefore the Religion of Protestants hath been in all ages since Christ in visible Societies.
2. That Religion which is contained in the Holy Scripture as its Rule or sufficient Revelation, hath been professed in all ages in visible Churches. But the Religion of Protestants is contained in the Holy Scriptures as its Rule or sufficient Revelation: therefore the Religion of Protestants hath been professed in all ages in visible Churches.
We name the Societies from the places of their residence: Our Church (as Augustine tells the Donatists) begun at Jerusalem, and thence was dispersed into Asia, Africa and Europe; it hath continued in Syria, Ethiopia, Egypt, India, Greece, &c. If I could name but one Nation that had been of my Religion, I should suspect it were not the true Religion. It is the Christian world that is instead of a Catalogue to us.