A26947:531
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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He adds [Let him not name the Hussites, for they held Mass, Transubstantiation and seven Sacraments, that the universal Church consisted only of the predestinate, &c.] Answ. O what a sort of men have we to deal with? The Council of Constance burnt John Huss to ashes for saying that there remained the substance of Bread and Wine after Consecration and that Transubstantiation was a new word to deceive men with] as Binnius himself expresseth among their accusations of him: And among the articles for discovery of the Hussites, one was Whether they take it to be a mortal sin to reject the Sacraments of Confirmation, extreme unction and marriage.] And yet now Huss is burnt for it, the poor lay-Papists are persuaded by their deceivers, that the Hussites were for Transubstantiation and seven Sacraments. Why then did a General Council accuse or receive accusation and witness against him for the contrary? 2. That the universal Church as invisible, and as taken in the first signification, containeth none but the truly sanctified (and so predestinate) we believe as well as Huss: though in the second Analogical signification, the Church as visible, containeth all the Professors of faith and Holiness, whether sincere or not. 3. And that they were condemned by the Council of Constance, and Huss and Hierom burnt after they had a safe conduct, doth show that the faith of Papists is perfidiousness, (for why should the people be more just then a General Council?) but it shows not that we and they are not of the same Church or Religion: you condemned and burnt those of our Religion too: therefore you thought at least that we are near kin.
He adds [Let him not name the Hussites, for they held Mass, Transubstantiation and seven Sacraments, that the universal Church consisted only of the predestinate, &c.] Answ. O what a sort of men have we to deal with? The Council of Constance burnt John Huss to ashes for saying that there remained the substance of Bread and Wine after Consecration and that Transubstantiation was a new word to deceive men with] as Binnius himself expresseth among their accusations of him: And among the articles for discovery of the Hussites, one was Whether they take it to be a mortall sin to reject the Sacraments of Confirmation, extream unction and marriage.] And yet now Huss is burnt for it, the poor lay-Papists are perswaded by their deceivers, that the Hussites were for Transubstantiation and seven Sacraments. Why then did a General Council accuse or receive accusation and witness against him for the contrary? 2. That the universal Church as invisible, and as taken in the first signification, containeth none but the truly sanctified (and so predestinate) we believe as well as Huss: though in the second Analogical signification, the Church as visible, containeth all the Professors of faith and Holiness, whether sincere or not. 3. And that they were condemned by the Council of Constance, and Huss and Hierom burnt after they had a safe conduct, doth shew that the faith of Papists is perfidiousness, (for why should the people be more just then a General Council?) but it shews not that we and they are not of the same Church or Religion: you condemned and burnt those of our Religion too: therefore you thought at least that we are neer kin.