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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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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.)
2. In the dayes of the A postles themselves, the Consectaries, and implied Verities, and Rejections of all Heresies were not particularly and expresly delivered either in Scripture or Tradition (as the Papists will confess.)
3. In the next ages after the Apostles, our Church was the one Catholic Church, containing all true Christians, Headed by Jesus Christ: and every such Christian (too many to number) was a member of it. And for our Religion, the Essential parts of it were contained both in the Holy Scriptures, and in the Public Professions, Ordinances, and Practices of the Church in those ages, (which you call Traditions:) and the rest of it, even all the doctrines of faith and universal Laws of God, which are its perfective parts, they were fully contained in the holy Scriptures. And some of our Rejections and Consectaries, were then gathered and owned by the Church, as Heresies occasioned the expressing of them: and the rest were all implied in the Apostolical Scripture doctrine which they preserved.
3. In the next ages after the Apostles, our Church was the one Catholick Church, containing all true Christians, Headed by Jesus Christ: and every such Christian (too many to number) was a member of it. And for our Religion, the Essential parts of it were contained both in the Holy Scriptures, and in the Publick Professions, Ordinances, and Practices of the Church in those ages, (which you call Traditions:) and the rest of it, even all the doctrines of faith and universal Laws of God, which are its perfective parts, they were fully contained in the holy Scriptures. And some of our Rejections and Consectaries, were then gathered and owned by the Church, as Heresies occasioned the expressing of them: and the rest were all implyed in the Apostolical Scripture doctrine which they preserved.