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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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3. If they do prove that some matters of fact are made known to us by Tradition that are not in the Scripture, or that any Church Orders or Circumstances of worship then used are so made known to us, (which yet we wait for the proof of) it will not follow that any of these are therefore Divine Institutions, or universal Laws for the unchangeable obligation of the whole Church. If there be some things Historically related in the Scripture, that were obligatory but for a season, and ordained ⟨p. 91⟩occasionally, and ceased when the occasion ceased (as the Love-feasts, the Kiss of Love, the washing of feet, the abstaining from things strangled and blood, the anointing the sick, the Prophesyings one by one, mentioned 1 Cor. 14. 31. miraculous gifts and their exercise, &c.) then it will not follow, if they could prove that the Apostles fasted in the Lent, or used the sign of the Cross in Baptism or holy Ordinances, or confirmed with a Cross in Chrism, &c. that therefore they intended these as universal Laws to the Church, though I suppose they will never prove that they used the things themselves.
3. If they do prove that some matters of fact are made known to us by Tradition that are not in the Scripture, or that any Church Orders or Circumstances of worship then used are so made known to us, (which yet we wait for the proof of) it will not follow that any of these are therefore Divine Institutions, or universal Lawes for the unchangable obligation of the whole Church. If there be some things Historically related in the Scripture, that were obligatory but for a season, and ordained ⟨p. 91⟩occasionally, and ceased when the occasion ceased (as the Love-feasts, the Kiss of Love, the washing of feet, the abstaining from things strangled and blood, the anointing the sick, the Prophesyings one by one, mentioned 1 Cor. 14. 31. miraculous gifts and their exercise, &c.) then it will not follow, if they could prove that the Apostles fasted in the Lent, or used the sign of the Cross in Baptisme or holy Ordinances, or confirmed with a Cross in Chrysme, &c. that therefore they intended these as universal Laws to the Church, though I suppose they will never prove that they used the things themselves.