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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.
Well I will you now hear whether the Papists or we be the greatest Changelings? 1. Some just changes they have made themselves, that they know well enough are as great as ours. It was so common in the ancient Church to Pray only standing on every Lords day, and not to kneel at all in any part of the worship of that day, that it was taken for an universal Tradition, and to kneel was taken for a great sin, and condemned by General Councils many hundred years after Christ; and yet the Church of Rome, and other Churches as well as we, have cast off this pretended Tradition, violated this Decree of General Councils, and forsaken this universal Custom of the Church. And the Papists receive the Eucharist kneeling, for all this Law and Custom.
Well I will you now hear whether the Papists or we be the greatest Changlings? 1. Some just changes they have made themselves, that they know well enough are as great as ours. It was so common in the antient Church to Pray only standing on every Lords day, and not to kneel at all in any part of the worship of that day, that it was taken for an universal Tradition, and to kneel was taken for a great sin, and condemned by General Councils many hundred years after Christ; and yet the Church of Rome, and other Churches as well as we, have cast off this pretended Tradition, violated this Decree of General Councils, and forsaken this universal Custom of the Church. And the Papists receive the Eucharist kneeling, for all this Law and Custome.
In the primitive Church, and in Tertullians days, a Common Feast of the Church was used with the Lords Supper, and the Sacrament taken then. But now this Custom is also changed. It was then the Custom to sing extempore in the Congregation to Gods praise. But now Rome it self hath no such Custom. It was once the Custom to give Infants the Lords Supper: but now Rome it self hath cast off that Custom. Once it was a Canon that Bishops must not read the books of Gentiles, (Concil. Carthag. 4.) which yet Paul made use of, and the Papists now do too much value. Abundance such changes might be mentioned, greater then ours, in which we are justified by the Papists themselves.
In the primitive Church, and in Tertullians dayes, a Common Feast of the Church was used with the Lords Supper, and the Sacrament taken then. But now this Custom is also changed. It was then the Custom to sing extempore in the Congregation to Gods praise. But now Rome it self hath no such Custom. It was once the Custom to give Infants the Lords Supper: but now Rome it self hath cast off that Custom. Once it was a Canon that Bishops must not read the books of Gentiles, (Concil. Carthag. 4.) which yet Paul made use of, and the Papists now do too much value. Abundance such changes might be mentioned, greater then ours, in which we are justified by the Papists themselves.