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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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3. They that are truly regenerate, and Justified, hating all known sin, longing to be perfect, Loving God above all, and seeking first his Kingdom and Righteousness, and accounting all things but as dung in comparison of Christ, these are all of the true Catholic Church, and the true Christian Religion: but such are all that are sincere, both of the Greeks, Abassines, &c. and the Reformed Churches; as we prove, 1. To others by our Profession and Practice, by which only they are capable of judging of us. 2. To ourselves infallibly against all the Enemies of our salvation in Hell or Earth, by the knowledge and acquaintance with our own hearts, and the experience of the work of God upon them. All the Jesuits in the world cannot persuade me that I love not God, and hate not sin, and prefer not the Love of Christ before all the world, when I feel and know that I do; till they can prove that they know my heart better then I do.
3. They that are truly regenerate, and Justified, hating all known sin, longing to be perfect, Loving God above all, and seeking first his Kingdom and Righteousness, and accounting all things but as dung in comparison of Christ, these are all of the true Catholick Church, and the true Christian Religion: but such are all that are sincere, both of the Greeks, Abassines, &c. and the Reformed Churches; as we prove, 1. To others by our Profession and Practice, by which only they are capable of judging of us. 2. To ourselves infallibly against all the Enemies of our salvation in Hell or Earth, by the knowledge and acquaintance with our own hearts, and the experience of the work of God upon them. All the Jesuites in the world cannot perswade me that I love not God, and hate not sin, and prefer not the Love of Christ before all the world, when I feel and know that I do; till they can prove that they know my heart better then I do.
4. If Christ Consent to it, and we Consent to it, then we are ⟨p. 125⟩all (that are sincere in their profession) of the true Catholic Church and Religion (for if he consent and we consent, who is there that is able to break the match?) But Christ consenteth, and we consent: as we prove by parts. 1. His consent is expressed in his Gospel, that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life; and whoever will, may drink of the water of life freely. 2. And our consent we openly professed at Baptism, and have frequently renewed, and our own souls are acquainted with the sincerity of it, whatever any that know not our hearts may say against it.