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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.
His first Argument (pag. 43.) is this. [The true Church of God hath had a continued Succession from Christ—But the Protestant Church, and so of all other Sectaries, hath not a continued Succession from Christ to this time: therefore, &c.] Answ. 1. I pray thee Reader be an impartial Judge what this man or any Papist ever said with sense and reason, to prove that the Eastern and Southern Churches have no true Succession. Let them talk what they please of their Schism, the world knows they have had as good a Succession as Rome. Are they not now of the same Church and Religion as ever they have been? All the change that many of them have made, hath been but in the entertaining of some fopperies, common to Rome and them. And if any of these (which you call Sectaries) can prove their Succession, it destroys your Argument and Cause. Me thinks you should not ask them, where their Church was before Luther?
His first Argument (pag. 43.) is this. [The true Church of God hath had a continued Succession from Christ—But the Protestant Church, and so of all other Sectaries, hath not a continued Succession from Christ to this time: therefore, &c.] Answ. 1. I pray thee Reader be an impartial Judge what this man or any Papist ever said with sense and reason, to prove that the Eastern and Southern Churches have no true Succession. Let them talk what they please of their Schisme, the world knows they have had as good a Succession as Rome. Are they not now of the same Church and Religion as ever they have been? All the change that many of them have made, hath been but in the entertaining of some fopperies, common to Rome and them. And if any of these (which you call Sectaries) can prove their Succession, it destroyes your Argument and Cause. Me thinks you should not ask them, where their Church was before Luther?
2. But how doth this Disputer prove his Minor, that we have no Succession? Only by a stark falsehood: forsooth [by the Concession of the most Learned Adversaries, who freely and unanimously Confess, that before Luther made his separation from the Church of Rome for nine hundred or one thousand years together, the whole world was Catholic, and in obedience to the Pope of Rome.