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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.
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⟩with them in all its parts, both Essential and perfective. That is, we now Believe 1. All to be true that was delivered by the Apostles as from God, with a General faith, 2. We believe all the Essentials and as much more as we can understand, with a Particular faith. 3. But we cannot say that with such a particular faith we believe all that the Apostles believed or delivered; for then we must say that we have the same degree of understanding as they; and that we understand every word of the Scriptures.
1. In the dayes of Christ and his Apostles our Church was where they and all Christians were: And our Religion was ⟨p. 120⟩with them in all its parts, both Essential and perfective. That is, we now Believe 1. All to be true that was delivered by the Apostles as from God, with a General faith, 2. We believe all the Essentials and as much more as we can understand, with a Particular faith. 3. But we cannot say that with such a particular faith we believe all that the Apostles believed or delivered; for then we must say that we have the same degree of understanding as they; and that we understand every word of the Scriptures.
2. In the days of the A postles themselves, the Consectaries, and implied Verities, and Rejections of all Heresies were not particularly and expressly delivered either in Scripture or Tradition (as the Papists will confess.)