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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.
You see here from the mouth of Infallibility it self (if the Roman faith have any) of what continuance we may judge their Immutable Decrees to be of, which are made as by Divine inspiration: they are Immutable till the Pope abrogate them, who being in Gods place, though of unequal merits (O humble confession!) is of power to do it.
3. We have a Rule that was perfected by Christ and his Apostles, to which nothing can be added, and therefore we are at a Certainty for our Religion: for we have a sure and perfect Rule from Heaven. Nothing may be added to it, or taken from it. But the Papists do profess that the Determinations of the Pope or Council may make a point (and so five thousand points, for there is no certain number) to be de fide articles of faith, and necessary to salvation, though not in se, yet quoad nos, as to us. (And what it is for a Law to be obligatory in se, and not quoad nos, is hard to understand.) So that the Papists never know when their faith is perfect and grown to its full stature. For ought they know a thousand more Articles yet may be added. And yet these men of uncertain growing faith, have the face to persuade men that we are mutable, and they are fixed. You see our several Principles: now to our Practices.
3. We have a Rule that was perfected by Christ and his Apostles, to which nothing can be added, and therefore we are at a Certainty for our Religion: for we have a sure and perfect Rule from Heaven. Nothing may be added to it, or taken from it. But the Papists do profess that the Determinations of the Pope or Councill may make a point (and so five thousand points, for there is no certain number) to be de fide articles of faith, and necessary to salvation, though not in se, yet quoad nos, as to us. (And what it is for a Law to be obligatory in se, and not quoad nos, is hard to understand.) So that the Papists never know when their faith is perfect and grown to its full stature. For ought they know a thousand more Articles yet may be added. And yet these men of uncertain growing faith, have the face to perswade men that we are mutable, and they are fixed. You see our several Principles: now to our Practices.