A26947:408
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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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 ⟨p. 95⟩Austin [every truth is contained in the Scriptures, latent or patent, as in other sciences Speculative, or Moral and Civil, the Conclusions and determinations are contained in their principles, &c. and the deduction is by way of inference or determination—] This is the plain Protestant Doctrine. There is nothing any way necessary to faith or salvation, but what is contained in the Scriptures, either expressly, or as the Conclusion in the premises. Good still! we desire no more. Let holy Reason then discern the Conclusion in the premises, and let us not be sent for it to the Authority of Rome; nay sent for some thing else, that is no Conclusion deducible from any Scripture principles: we grant Tradition or Church practices are very useful for our better understanding of some Scriptures. But what is this to another Traditional word of God? Prove your Traditions but by inference from Scripture, and we will receive them.
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 wayes; one way Explicitely, another way Implicitely. 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 explicitely 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 explicitely or implicitely. Hence saith ⟨p. 95⟩