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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.
4. By degrees many errors crept into the Church: yet so, that 1. Neither the Catholic Church, nor one true Christian (in sensu composito at least) did reject any essential part of Christianity. 2. And all parts of the Church were not alike corrupted with error, but some more, and some less. 3. And still the whole Church held the holy Scripture it self, and so had a perfect General or Implicit belief; even while by evil consequences they oppugned many parts of their own profession.
4. By degrees many errors crept into the Church: yet so, that 1. Neither the Catholick Church, nor one true Christian (in sensu composito at least) did reject any essential part of Christianity. 2. And all parts of the Church were not alike corrupted with error, but some more, and some less. 3. And still the whole Church held the holy Scripture it self, and so had a perfect General or Implicite belief; even while by evill consequences they oppugned many parts of their own profession.
5. When in process of time by claiming the universal Sovereignty, Rome had introduced a new pretended Catholic Church, ⟨p. 121⟩(so far as their opinion took) by superadding a New Head and form, there was then a two fold Church in the West; the Christian as Christian headed by Christ; and the Papal as Papal Headed by the Pope; yet so as they called it but one Church; and by this usurped Monarchy as under Christ endeavoured to make but one of them, by making both the Heads Essential, when before one only was tolerable. And if the Matter in any part may be the same, and the same Man be a Christian and a Papist, and so the same Assemblies: yet still the forms are various: and as Christians and part of the Catholic Church, they are one thing: and as Papists, and members of the separating sect, they are another thing. Till this time there is no doubt of our Churches Visibility.
5. When in process of time by claiming the universall Soveraignty, Rome had introduced a new pretended Catholick Church,