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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.
In a word, Our Religion is Christianity. 1. Christianity hath certain Essentials, without which no man can be a Christian; and it hath moreover many precious truths, and duties necessary necessitate praecepti, and also necessitate medii, to the better being of a Christian. Our being as Christians is in the former; and our strength and increase and better-being is much in the latter. From the former, Religion and the Church is denominated. Moreover, 2. Our implicit and actual explicit Belief (as the Papists call them) must be distinguished; or, our General and our particular Belief. 3. And also the Positives of our Belief must be distinguished from the implied Negatives; and the express Articles themselves, from their implied Consectaries.
In a word, Our Religion is Christianity. 1. Christianity hath certain Essentials, without which no man can be a Christian; and it hath moreover many precious truths, and duties necessary necessitate praecepti, and also necessitate medii, to the better being of a Christian. Our being as Christians is in the former; and our strength and increase and better-being is much in the latter. From the former, Religion and the Church is denominated. Moreover, 2. Our implicite and actuall explicite Belief (as the Papists call them) must be distinguished; or, our General and our particular Belief. 3. And also the Positives of our Belief must be distinguished from the implyed Negatives; and the express Articles themselves, from their implyed Consectaries.
And now premising these three distinctions, I shall tell you where our Church hath been in all Ages since the birth of Christ.
1. In the days of Christ and his Apostles our Church was where they and all Christians were: And our Religion was ⟨p. 120⟩