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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.
H. T. adds [Let him not name the Grecians: for they rejected the Communion of Protestants. Censur. Eccl. Orient. They were at least seven hundred or eight hundred year in Communion with the Church of Rome.—they were united to the Church of Rome again in the Council of Florence: They held Transubstantiation, seven Sacraments, unbloody Sacrifice, Prayer to Saints, and for the dead.]
Answ. If one Patriarch, or twenty men reject our Communion, ⟨p. 133⟩whats that to the Millions of Greek Christians that never rejected it? And whats that to all Patriarchs before and after that rejected it not? Did Cyril reject our Communion, that hath published a Protestant confession, and was so maligned, and treacherously dealt with to the death, and falsely accused to the Turks by the Jesuits, for his constancy? 2. Do you think the world knoweth not by what inducements you drew a few poor men at Florence to subscribe to a certain union with you? and what death the Patriarch dyed? and how the Greeks resented his fact? and what a return they made to your Church? I pray persuade your selves that they and we and all are Papists. 3. If the Greeks did disclaim Communion with us, they are nevertheless of the same Church and Religion with us, for all that. Paul and Barnabas were both Christians when they parted in dissension. If one neighbour in anger call another Traitor unjustly, and say he will have no Society with him, they may be both the Kings subjects and members of one Common wealth for all that. 4. As to the Greeks opinions, and the Papists false accusations of them, I have spoken already against pretended. Veridicus in my Safe Religion. It is not you nor all the Jesuits on earth that can prove the Greeks and us to be so distant, as not to be of the same Catholic Religion and Church.
Answ. If one Patriark, or twenty men reject our Communion, ⟨p. 133⟩whats that to the Millions of Greek Christians that never rejected it? And whats that to all Patriarcks before and after that rejected it not? Did Cyril reject our Communion, that hath published a Protestant confession, and was so maligned, and treacherously dealt with to the death, and falsly accused to the Turks by the Jesuites, for his constancy? 2. Do you think the world knoweth not by what inducements you drew a few poor men at Florence to subscribe to a certain union with you? and what death the Patriark dyed? and how the Greeks resented his fact? and what a return they made to your Church? I pray perswade your selves that they and we and all are Papists. 3. If the Greeks did disclaim Communion with us, they are nevertheless of the same Church and Religion with us, for all that. Paul and Barnabas were both Christians when they parted in dissention. If one neighbour in anger call another Traitor unjustly, and say he will have no Society with him, they may be both the Kings subjects and members of one Common wealth for all that. 4. As to the Greeks opinions, and the Papists false accusations of them, I have spoken already against pretended. Veridicus in my Safe Religion. It is not you nor all the Jesuites on earth that can prove the Greeks and us to be so distant, as not to be of the same Catholick Religion and Church.