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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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2. As the Out-side of their Assertions is made for a bug-bear to frighten fools, so that the In-side (as expounded by many of them) is that Heathens and Infidels may be of their Church or saved, and that nothing of the Christian faith at all is necessary to salvation, is plain: For they 'tell us that they mean, that all points are of necessity, where they are sufficiently proposed, and mens ignorance is not invincible; but where there is no sufficient proposal, but mens ignorance is invincible, or such as comes not from a wilful neglect of means, there no ignorance of the articles of faith is damnable, and so no article absolutely necessary: so that the question indeed is not Whether men believe or not? but Whether they are Unbelievers or Heathens or ignorant persons, by a wilful neglect of sufficiently proposed Truth, or not? So that all that part of the Heathen or Infidel world (O how great) that have no such proposals of the Gospel, may not only be saved, but be better and safer then most Christians (if not all) who certainly are sinfully ignorant of some truth which they ought to know.
2. As the Out-side of their Assertions is made for a bug-bear to frighten fools, so that the In-side (as expounded by many of them) is that Heathens and Infidels may be of their Church or saved, and that nothing of the Chrian faith at all is necessary to salvation, is plain: For they 'tell us that they mean, that all points are of necessity, where they are sufficiently proposed, and mens ignorance is not invincible; but where there is no sufficient proposal, but mens ignorance is invincible, or such as comes not from a wilfull neglect of means, there no ignorance of the articles of faith is damnable, and so no article absolutely necessary: so that the question indeed is not Whether men believe or not? but Whether they are Unbelievers or Heathens or ignorant persons, by a willfull neglect of sufficiently proposed Truth, or not? So that all that part of the Heathen or Infidell world (O how great) that have no such proposals of the Gospel, may not only be saved, but be better and safer then most Christians (if not all) who certainly are sinfully ignorant of some truth which they ought to know.
Obj. But (say they) it will not stand with faith to deny belief to God in any thing, sufficiently revealed: for he that believeth him in one thing, believeth him in all.]