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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.
Argum. 1. If men that err in points material (that is, precious truths of God, which they ought to have believed.) may yet be true Christians and hold all the Essentials of Christianity: then may they be of the same true Church and Religion: But the former is true: therefore so is the later. The Antecedent is proved, in that all truths which may be called Material, are not of the essence of Christianity.
Argum. 1. If men that err in points material (that is, precious truths of God, which they ought to have believed.) may yet be true Christians and hold all the Essentials of Christianity: then may they be of the same true Church and Religion: But the former is true: therefore so is the later. The Antecedent is proved, in that all truths which may be called Materiall, are not of the essence of Christianity.
Argum. 2. The Apostle Thomas erred in a Material point (which is now an essential) when he would not believe Christs Resurrection: and yet was a member of the true Church: therefore, &c.
Argum. 2. The Apostle Thomas erred in a Materiall point (which is now an essentiall) when he would not believe Christs Resurrection: and yet was a member of the true Church: therefore, &c.
Argum. 3. The Papists err in material points, and yet think themselves of the same true Church: therefore they must confess that differing in Material points may be the case of members of the same true Church. For proof of the Minor, I demand: ⟨p. 128⟩Are none of the points Material that have been so hotly agitated between the Jesuits, and Dominicans and Jansenists? the Papal party, and the Council party? The Thomists, Scotists, Ockamists, &c. At least review the Jesuit Casuists cited by the Jansenists Mystery of Jesuitism; and tell us whether it be no whit Material Whether a man may kill another for a Crown? or may kill both Judge and witnesses to avoid an unjust sentence? Or whether a man should go with good meanings into a Whorehouse to persuade them to penitence, that hath found by experience that when he comes there he is naught with them himself? Or whether a man may lawfully lie and calumniate to put by a calumny? Or speak falsely with mental reservations? Or forbear loving God many years together, if not all his life? Are these points no whit Material? You know that one part of you (with a Pope and General Council) are for deposing Heretical Kings, and murdering and stabbing them, and others of you disavow it: Is this no whit material? And yet you are all of one Church and Religion. A hundred more of your differences I could name.