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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.
Answ. And how proves he the Minor? No how at all; but puts us to disprove it; and withal gives us certain Laws, which we will obey when they grow up to the honour of being reasonable. His first Law is, that [We must name none but only such as held explicitly the thirty nine Articles, all granting and denying the same points that the late Protestants of England granted or denied—for if they differ from them in any one material point, they cannot be esteemed Protestants] Answ. A learned Law! And what call you [a material point?] You may yet make what you list of it. If they differ in any point Essential to Christianity, we grant your imposition to be necessary. But there is not the least Chronological, or Geographical, or other truth in Scripture, but is a Material Point, though not Essential. Must you needs know which these Essentials are? In a word: Those which the Apostles and the ancient Church pre-required the knowledge and profession of, unto Baptism. And because all your fond exceptions are grounded on this one point, I shall crave your patience, while I briefly, but sufficiently prove that Men that err, and that in points material, may yet be of the same Church and Religion.
Answ. And how proves he the Minor? No how at all; but puts us to disprove it; and withall gives us certain Laws, which we will obey when they grow up to the honour of being reasonable. His first Law is, that [We must name none but only such as held explicitely the thirty nine Articles, all granting and denying the same points that the late Protestants of England granted or denyed—for if they differ from them in any one materiall point, they cannot be esteemed Protestants] Answ. A learned Law! And what call you [a material point?] You may yet make what you list of it. If they differ in any point Essentiall to Christianity, we grant your imposition to be necessary. But there is not the least Chronologicall, or Geographicall, or other truth in Scripture, but is a Materiall Point, though not Essential. Must you needs know which these Essentials are? In a word: Those which the Apostles and the ancient Church pre-required the knowledge and profession of, unto Baptism. And because all your fond exceptions are grounded on this one point, I shall crave your patience, while I briefly, but sufficiently prove that Men that err, and that in points materiall, may yet be of the same Church and Religion.