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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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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.
9. And if General Councils themselves, and that of your own, should be for the sufficiency of Scripture; what then is become of all your Traditions? Search your own Binnius, page 299. whether it past not as sound doctrine at the Council of Basil (in Ragusii Orat.) Sup. 6. [that faith and all things necessary to salvation, both matters of belief, and matters of practice, are founded in the literal sense (of Scripture,) and only from that may argumentation be taken for the proving of those things that are matters of faith, or necessary to salvation; and not from those passages that are spoken by allegory, or other spiritual sense] Sup. 7. [The Holy Scripture in the literal sense soundly and well understood, is the infallible and most sufficient Rule of faith] Is not here enough against all other Traditional Articles of faith? A plain man would think so. Yea, but Binnius noteth that he meaneth that explicitly or implicitly it is so. Well! I confess the best of you are slippery enough: but let us grant this; (for indeed he so explaineth himself afterward: yet that's nothing for Tradition. He there maintaineth that Scripture is the Rule of faith (not part of the Rule) [For (saith he) when the intellect happeneth to err, as in heretics, its necessary that there be some Rule, by the deviation or conformity to which the intellect may perceive that it doth or doth not err. Else it would be still in doubt and fluctuate—it appeareth that no humane science ⟨p. 94⟩