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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.
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?
2. We take nothing for our Rule but the sure word of God contained in the holy Scriptures: but the Papists take the Decrees of all Popes and Councils for their Rule: Our Rule they confess to be Divine and infallible: Their Rule we affirm to be humane and fallible. Which then is like to be more firm? Our Rule (the sacred Scriptures in the Original languages, as to the words, and the matter of them, as to the sense) the Papists themselves confess unchangeable; but whether they will say as much of their own, I will try by two or three Instances. 1. What an alteration Pope Sixtus, and Pope Clement made in the Vulgar Latin Bible, which is one part of their Rule, I told you before, and Dr. James his Bellum Papal will tell you the particulars. 2. The other part is their Decrees, of which Pope Leo the tenth in Bulla contr. Luth. in Binnius, page 655. saith [the holy Popes our predecessors never erred in their Canons and Constitutions] And yet hear what Pope Julius the second saith in his General Council at the Lateran ⟨p. 110⟩with their approbation, Cant. pragmat. sanct. monitor. Binnius, vol. 4. pag. 560. [Though the Institutions of sacred Canons, holy Fathers, and Popes of Rome—and their Decrees be judged immutable, as made by Divine Inspiration; yet the Pope of Rome, who, though of unequal merits, holdeth the place of the Eternal King, and the Maker of all things, and all Laws on earth, may abrogate these Decrees when they are abused.]
2. We take nothing for our Rule but the sure word of God contained in the holy Scriptures: but the Papists take the Decrees of all Popes and Councils for their Rule: Our Rule they confess to be Divine and infallible: Their Rule we affirm to be humane and fallible. Which then is like to be more firm? Our Rule (the sacred Scriptures in the Originall languages, as to the words, and the matter of them, as to the sence) the Papists themselves confess unchangeable; but whether they will say as much of their own, I will try by two or three Instances. 1. What an alteration Pope Sixtus, and Pope Clement made in the Vulgar Latine Bible, which is one part of their Rule, I told you before, and Dr. James his Bellum Papale will tell you the particulars. 2. The other part is their Decrees, of which Pope Leo the tenth in Bulla contr. Luth. in Binnius, page 655. saith [the holy Popes our predecessors never erred in their Canons and Constitutions] And yet hear what Pope Julius the second saith in his General Councill at the Laterane