A26947:407
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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Moreover if the Holy Scripture were wanting in any things that are necessary to salvation, then those things that are wanting might lawfully and deservedly be superadded from some thing else (aliunde) or if any thing were superfluous, be diminished. But this is forbidden, Rev. 22. From whence its plain that in Scripture there is nothing defective, and nothing superfluous, which is agreeable to its author, the Holy Ghost, to whose Omnipotency it agreeeth that nothing deminutely; to his Wisdom that nothing superfluously; and to his Goodness that in a congruous order, he provide for the Necessity of our salvation, Prov. 30. 5, 6. The word of God is a fiery buckler to them that hope in him: Add thou not to his words lest be reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.] How like you all this in a Popish General Council? and in an Oration against the Sacrament in both kinds.
Moreover if the Holy Scripture were wanting in any things that are necessary to salvation, then those things that are wanting might lawfully and deservedly be superadded from some thing else (aliunde) or if any thing were superfluous, be diminished. But this is forbidden, Rev. 22. From whence its plain that in Scripture there is nothing defective, and nothing superfluous, which is agreeable to its author, the Holy Ghost, to whose Omnipotency it agreeeth that nothing deminutely; to his Wisdom that nothing superfluously; and to his Goodness that in a congruous order, he provide for the Necessity of our salvation, Prov. 30. 5, 6. The word of God is a fiery buckler to them that hope in him: Add thou not to his words lest be reprove thee, and thou be found a lyar.] How like you all this in a Popish General Council? and in an Oration against the Sacrament in both kinds.
Well! but perhaps the distinction unsaith all again? No such matter; you shall hear it truly recited. He proceeds thus [But for the further declaration of this Rule as to that part, it must be known, that the sufficiency of any doctrine is necessarily to be understood two ways; one way Explicitly, another way Implicitly. And this is true in every Doctrine or science, because no doctrine was ever so sufficiently delivered, that all the Conclusions contained in its principles, were delivered and expressed explicitly and in the proper terms: and so it is in our purpose: because there is nothing that any way or in any manner (N.B.) pertaineth to faith and salvation, which is not most sufficiently contained in the holy Scripture explicitly or implicitly. Hence saith