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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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So that in sum, our Religion was at first with the Apostles, and the Apostolic Church: and for divers hundred years after, it was with the universal Christian Church: And since Romes usurpation, it was even with the Romanists though abused, and with the greater part of the Catholic Church that renounced Popery then, and so do now; and also with the opposers of the Pope in the West under his own nose. You see now what Succession we plead, and where our Church and Religion still was.
So that in summ, our Religion was at first with the Apostles, and the Apostolick Church: and for divers hundred years after, it was with the universal Christian Church: And since Romes usurpation, it was even with the Romanists though abused, and with the greater part of the Catholick Church that renounced Popery then, and so do now; and also with the opposers of the Pope in the West under his own nose. You see now what Succession we plead, and where our Church and Religion still was.
If any deny that we are of the same Church and Religion with the Greeks, Abassines, and most of the Christian world, (yea all that is truly Christian) I easily prove it. 1. They that are Christians joined to Christ the Head, are all of the same Church and Religion (for none else are Christians or united to Christ, but the Church which is his Body) But the sincere Greeks, Abassines, &c. and we are Christians united to Christ the Head: therefore we are all of one and the same Church and Religion.
If any deny that we are of the same Church and Religion with the Greeks, Abassines, and most of the Christian world, (yea all that is truly Christian) I easily prove it. 1. They that are Christians joyned to Christ the Head, are all of the same Church and Religion (for none else are Christians or united to Christ, but the Church which is his Body) But the sincere Greeks, Abassines, &c. and we are Christians united to Christ the Head: therefore we are all of one and the same Church and Religion.