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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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7. And when we find so lame an account from your selves of the true Apostolical Traditions: You are so confounded between your Ecclesiastical Decrees and Traditions, and your Apostolical Traditions, that we despair of learning from you to know one from the other: and of seeing under the hand of his Holiness and a General Council a Catalogue of the true Apostolical Traditions. And sure it seems to us scarce fair dealing that in one thousand and five hundred years time, (if indeed there have been Popes so long) the Church could never have an enumeration and description of these Traditions, with ⟨p. 93⟩the proofs of them. Had you told us which are Apostolic Traditions but as fully and plainly, as the Scriptures which you accuse of insufficiency and obscurity, do deliver us their part, you had discharged your pretended trust.
7. And when we find so lame an account from your selves of the true Apostolical Traditions: You are so confounded between your Ecclesiasticall Decrees and Traditions, and your Apostolical Traditions, that we despair of learning from you to know one from the other: and of seeing under the hand of his Holiness and a General Council a Catalogue of the true Apostolical Traditions. And sure it seems to us scarce fair dealing that in one thousand and five hundered years time, (if indeed there have been Popes so long) the Church could never have an enumeration and description of these Traditions, with ⟨p. 93⟩the proofs of them. Had you told us which are Apostolick Traditions but as fully and plainly, as the Scriptures which you accuse of insufficiency and obscurity, do deliver us their part, you had discharged your pretended trust.
8. And it is in our eyes an abominable impiety, for you to equal your Traditions with the holy Scripture, till you have enumerated and proved them. And it makes us the more to suspect your Traditions, when we perceive that they or their Patrons have such an enmity to the Holy Scriptures, that they cannot be rightly defended without casting some reproach upon the Scriptures. But this we do not much wonder at: for it is no new thing with the applauders of Tradition. We find the eighth General Council at Constantinople, Can. 3. decreeing, that [the Image of Christ be adored with equal Honour with the Holy Scripture,] But whether that be an Apostolical Tradition, we doubt.