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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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If you have the faces again to say that all these are Heretics or Schismatics, and therefore have no vote, we answer. If a minor party, and that so partial and corrupt, seeking Dominion over the rest, may step into the Tribunal, and pass sentence against the Catholic Church, or the greatest part of it, blame not others, if on far better grounds they do so by that part. And for shame do not any more hereafter use any such self-condemning words, as to ask any Sect, [How dare you condemn the Catholic Church? Do you think all the Church is forsaken but you, &c?] And let us ask you, as you teach your followers to ask us, [If we must turn from the Universal Church to any Sect, why rather to yours then another? why not as well to the Anabaptists, or other party, as to the Papists?]
If you have the faces again to say that all these are Hereticks or Schismaticks, and therefore have no vote, we answer. If a minor party, and that so partial and corrupt, seeking Dominion over the rest, may step into the Tribunal, and pass sentence against the Catholick Church, or the greatest part of it, blame not others, if on far better grounds they do so by that part. And for shame do not any more hereafter use any such self-condemning words, as to ask any Sect, [How dare you condemn the Catholick Church? Do you think all the Church is forsaken but you, &c?] And let us ask you, as you teach your followers to ask us, [If we must turn from the Universal Church to any Sect, why rather to yours then another? why not as well to the Anabaptists, or other party, as to the Papists?]
But your common saying is, that the Greeks, Protestants, and all the rest were once of your Church, and departing from it, they can have no Tradition but yours, for their spring is with you. To which we answer. 1. The vanity of this your fiction shall by and by be answered by it self. 2. You say so, and they say otherwise: why should we believe you that are a smaller, partial and corrupted part? 3. Well then let us go to former ages, seeing it is not the present Church whose voice you will regard (only by the way, I pray forget not, 1. That you do ill then to call us still to the Judgement of the present Church, and dare not stand to it. 2. And that you do ill to persuade men that the greater part of the Church cannot err, if you sentence the