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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.
The Papists Tradition is for serving God publicly in an unknown tongue. But the holy Scripture is fully against it. Their Tradition is against Lay mens reading the Scripture in a known tongue, without special License from their ordinary: But Scripture and all antiquity is against them. The like we may say of many other Controversies.
The Papists Tradition is for serving God publickly in an unknown tongue. But the holy Scripture is fully against it. Their Tradition is against Lay mens reading the Scripture in a known tongue, without special License from their ordinary: But Scripture and all antiquity is against them. The like we may say of many other Controversies.
So that these seven ways we know their Traditions to be ⟨p. 118⟩deceitful; because they are 1. Unproved. 2. Against the sufficiency of Scripture. 3. Against their own former confessions. 4. Against the consent of the Fathers. 5. Contrary to the judgement of most of the Catholic Church. 6. We can prove that once the Church was without them. 7. And they are many of them contrary to express Scripture.
So that these seven wayes we know their Traditions to be ⟨p. 118⟩deceitfull; because they are 1. Unproved. 2. Against the sufficiency of Scripture. 3. Against their own former confessions. 4. Against the concent of the Fathers. 5. Contrary to the judgement of most of the Catholick Church. 6. We can prove that once the Church was without them. 7. And they are many of them contrary to express Scripture.
And if Scripture will but show which of us is nearest the doctrine and practice of the Apostles, then the controversy is ended, or in a fair way to it: For we provoke them to try the cause by Scripture, and they deny it: we profess it is the Rule and test of our Religion; but they appeal to another Rule and test. And thus you may see which is the old Religion: which will be somewhat fuller cleared in that which followeth.