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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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CHAP. XXIV.
Detect. 15. Another fraud of the Papists, which they place not the least of their confidence in, is this: They persuade the people that our Church and Religion is but new, of the other days invention: and that theirs is the only old Religion. And therefore they call upon us to give them a Catalogue of the professors of our Religion in all ages; which they pretend we cannot do: and ask us where our Church was before Luther?
Detect. 15. ANother fraud of the Papists, which they place not the least of their confidence in, is this: They perswade the people that our Church and Religion is but new, of the other dayes invention: and that theirs is the only old Religion. And therefore they call upon us to give them a Catalogue of the professors of our Religion in all ages; which they pretend we cannot do: and ask us where our Church was before Luther?
To this we shall give them once more a brief, but satisfactory answer. I. We are so fully assured that the oldest Religion is the best, (since the date of the Gospel) that we are contented that our whole cause do stand or fall by this trial. Let him be esteemed of the true Religion, that is of the oldest Religion. This is the main difference between us and the Papists: We are for no Religion that is not as old as the days of the Apostles: but they are for the Novelties and Additions of Popes and Councils. Their own Polidore Virgil de Inven. Rerum, p. 410. lib 8. c. 4. calling us a Sect, doth give you a just description of us [Ita licentia pacta loquendi, &c. i. e. Having once got leave to speak, that sect did marvellously increase in a short time; which is called Evangelical, because they affirm that no Law is to be received which belongeth to salvation, but what is given by Christ or the Apostles.] Mark what they confess themselves of our Religion: And yet these very men have the face to charge us with Novelty; as if Christ and his Apostles were not of sufficient Antiquity for them. Our main quarrel with them is, for adding new inventions in Religion, and their principal business against us is to defend it, and yet they call theirs the old Religion, and ours the new.