A26947:541
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.
because were it true, as it is most false, that those Fathers were Protestants, yet could not that suffice to prove them is continued Succession of one thousand six hundred years.]
Answ. 1. It sufficeth us if those Fathers were Christians, as we are, though having no usurper of an universal Monarchy to Protest against, they were not to be called Protestants. 2. It is an idle pretence indeed, to go about to prove a Succession of one thousand six hundred years, by the bare instance of five hundred years: but your idle head hath forged more idle pretences then this, by way of calumniation. But yet we may prove the Antiquity of our Religion from those Fathers, and the Novelty of yours, and a Succession for those five hundred years: and for the rest, if the whole Christian world had been big ⟨p. 126⟩enough for you to see, you might have discerned our Evidence of a further Succession.
He adds [2. Because those of the sixth age must needs know what was the Religion and Tenets of them that lived in the fifth age, by whom they were instructed, and with whom they daily conversed better then our Protestants can now do; who have Protested on their salvation, that it was the very same with theirs, received from them by word of mouth &c.]