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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.
1. Though they held but one nature in Christ, it was not by permixtion or confusion of the natures, as Eutiches imagined, but Conjunction or Coalition: Nicephor. Hist. Eccles. lib. 18. cap. 53. And divers of your own writers say the difference is found to be but in words. And even all this they now deny, as you may see in their own Confession published not eighty years ago, Artic. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. &c. 2. That they change the humane nature of Christ into the Divinity, is your slander, and therefore no good argument. 3. That they were condemned by (the five Acts, or in any Act of) the Council of Calcedon, is another untruth: sure you go much upon trust, that dare venture to stuff your book with such falsehoods. But the best is, your simple Papists know not but all is true: they must believe ⟨p. 135⟩you, and cannot disprove you. The Armenians then and we are of one Catholic Church and Religion, notwithstanding all your forgeries and vain exceptions. I know that one or two petty Councils chid them for not mixing water with wine in the Eucharist; and more then that, the Canons of the General Council called Quinisexti do condemn the same error as theirs, and also their deputing the Sons of Priests successively to the Priesthood, and not shaving their hair: and their eating eggs and cheese on Saturdays and Sundays in Lent. But 1. We fear not to say that we are of the same Church with men that err more then not shaving, or then eating eggs and cheese comes to, or any of this. 2 And remember that this is one of your Reprobate Councils. 3. And one that the third time (when two General Councils before had done it) did Canon. 36. give aequalia privilegia, equal privileges to the Seat of Constantinople as Rome had. So that I think you will have no mind of this General Council. And if any other have judged them Eutychians, though I renounce that opinion, yet I must tell you, that my Charity covereth far greater errors in the Papists, or else I could not take them for Christians. If the Question had ever been started in a Council, whether mans soul and body are two Natures or but one, its ten to one but it would have made another heresy, and yet perhaps the real difference have been no more then it is now there is no Controversy about it. But H. T. addeth [Protestants pretence to the Fathers of the first five hundred years, is very idle;
1. Though they held but one nature in Christ, it was not by permixtion or confusion of the natures, as Eutiches imagined, but Conjunction or Coalition: Nicephor. Hist. Eccles. lib. 18. cap. 53. And divers of your own writers say the difference is found to be but in words. And even all this they now deny, as you may see in their own Confession published not eighty years ago, Artic. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. &c. 2. That they change the humane nature of Christ into the Divinity, is your slander, and therefore no good argument. 3. That they were condemned by (the five Acts, or in any Act of) the Council of Calcedon, is another untruth: sure you go much upon trust, that dare venture to stuff your book with such falshoods. But the best is, your simple Papists know not but all is true: they must believe