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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.
2. But why is it that they must all needs explicitly hold the thirty nine Articles? 1. I pray you tell us, whether all your own Church do explicitly hold and believe all your Articles? that is, all that Popes and General Councils have defined or declared. Dare you say that one of five hundred, of five thousand, doth explicitly believe all this? And why then is it necessary in our case that all must explicitly believe all those Articles? 2. Yea with us it is far more unnecessary. For we take not those Articles for the Rule of our faith, but only the holy Scripture: And therefore you may as well tell us that no man is of our Religion, that did not write or speak all the same words that Jewell, Reignolds, Perkins, or such other have written ⟨p. 130⟩in their whole works. 3. Its easy to prove for all that, that the sense and substance of those Articles have been owned by the Churches in all ages.
2. But why is it that they must all needs explicitely hold the thirty nine Articles? 1. I pray you tell us, whether all your own Church do explicitely hold and believe all your Articles? that is, all that Popes and General Councils have defined or declared. Dare you say that one of five hundred, of five thousand, doth explicitely believe all this? And why then is it necessary in our case that all must explicitely believe all those Articles? 2. Yea with us it is far more unnecessary. For we take not those Articles for the Rule of our faith, but only the holy Scripture: And therefore you may as well tell us that no man is of our Religion, that did not write or speak all the same words that Jewell, Reignolds, Perkins, or such other have written ⟨p. 130⟩in their whole works. 3. Its easie to prove for all that, that the sense and substance of those Articles have been owned by the Churches in all ages.
3. But what if we grant your conclusion, that [else they cannot be esteemed Protestants] what of that? As if none but Protestants were of the same Church and Religion with us. Sure you think we make a sect of our selves like you, and exclude all others from the Church and Salvation as you do! The word [Protestant] is not the first denomination of our Religion from its essence; for so we call our selves [Christians] only; But it is a title that accidentally accrued to our Religion, from our Protesting against your innovations and corruptions; and our Rejecting the errors contrary to our Religion which you had introduced. Now those that were not involved in your errors as our forefathers were, but lived at a further distance from you, might have no occasion to make such a Protestation; and yet be of the same Church and Religion as we are.