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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And for different forms of worship, sure these men do wilfully forget what a number of Offices and Mass books have been among themselves and other Churches? and what a number of Litanies or Liturgies of several ages and Churches they have given us in the Bibliotheca Patrum? but more of this anon.
And for different forms of worship, sure these men do wilfully forget what a number of Offices and Mass books have been among themselves and other Churches? and what a number of Letanies or Liturgies of several ages and Churches they have given us in the Bibliotheca Patrum? but more of this anon.
2. And as for the changes and unfixedness which they charge us with, we are contented that 1. Our principles. 2. And our practises be compared with the Papists, and then let even modest and judicious enemies be judges which of us are more fixed, or more mutable.
1. For our Principles: we take only Christ to be the chief Foundation of our Faith, and his inspired Prophets and Apostles to be the secondary foundation: whereas the Papists build upon many a most ungodly ignorant man, because he is the Pope of Rome. And which of these is the firmer foundation?