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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.
6. In this time of the Romish Usurpation, our Church was visible in three degrees, in three several sorts of persons. 1. It was visible in the lowest degree among the Papists themselves, not as Papists, but as Christians. For they never did to this day deny the Scriptures, nor the Ancient Creeds, nor Baptism, the Lords Supper, nor any of the substance of our Positive Articles of Religion. They added a New Religion and Church of their own, but still professed to hold all the old in consistency with it.
6. In this time of the Romish Usurpation, our Church was visible in three degrees, in three severall sorts of persons. 1. It was visible in the lowest degree among the Papists themselves, not as Papists, but as Christians. For they never did to this day deny the Scriptures, nor the Ancient Creeds, nor Baptism, the Lords Supper, nor any of the substance of our Positive Articles of Religion. They added a New Religion and Church of their own, but still professed to hold all the old in consistency with it.
Wherever the truth of holy Scriptures and the ancient Creeds of the Church were professed, there was our Religion before Luther: But even among the Papists the holy Scriptures and the said Creeds were (visibly) professed: therefore among them was our Religion.
And note here that Popery it self was not ripe for a corruption of the Christian faith professed, till Luther's opposition heightened them. For the Scripture was frequently before, by Papists held to be a most sufficient Rule of faith, (as I showed before from the Council of Basil:) and consequently, Tradition was only pleaded as conservatory and expository of the Scripture; but now the Council of Trent hath in a sort equalled them. And this they were lately driven to, when they found that out of Scripture they were unable to confute or suppress the truth.