A26947:553
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. What if his Catalogue were true and proved, would it ⟨p. 139⟩prove the Exclusion, that [no other Church:] had a succession? Doth it prove that Constantinople, or Alexandria had no such succession, because the Romanists had it? where is there ever a word here under this Argument to prove that exclusive part of his Minor?
2. And note how he puts that for the Question that is not the Question between us. A fair beginning! The Question is not about Churches in Communion with you, but about Churches in subjection to you: But this is but a pious fraud, to save men by deceiving them. The Ancient Church of Rome had the Church of Jerusalem, Corinth, Philippi, Ephesus, and many a hundred Churches in Communion with her, that never were in subjection to her.
2. And note how he puts that for the Question that is not the Question between us. A fair beginning! The Question is not about Churches in Communion with you, but about Churches in subjection to you: But this is but a pious fraud, to save men by decieving them. The Ancient Church of Rome had the Church of Hierusalem, Corinth, Philippi, Ephesus, and many a hundred Churches in Communion with her, that never were in subjection to her.
3. And if the Papists can but prove themselves true Christians, I will quickly prove that the Protestants are in Communion with them still, as Christians, by the same Head (Christ) the same spirit, baptism, faith, love, hope, &c. though not as Papists, by subjection to the same usurper.