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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.
I make no doubt (though Bellarmine deny it,) but other Churches can prove as good a succession as the Roman, as to Bishops; And poor Bellarmine after all is fain to give up this Mark as insufficient to prove a true Church. Lib. •. de Eccles. cap. 8. Dico secundò, Argumentum à succession legittna adferri à nobis praecipuè ad probandum non esse Ecclesiam ibi non est haec successio, quod quidem evidens est: ex quo tamen n• colligitur necessario, ibi esse Ecclesiam ubi est successio. By his own confession then, succession will not prove the Romanists a true Church.
I make no doubt (though Bellarmine deny it,) but other Churches can prove as good a succession as the Romane, as to Bishops; And poor Bellarmine after all is fain to give up this Mark as insufficient to prove a true Church. Lib. •. de Eccles. cap. 8. Dico secundò, Argumentum à successione legittna adferri à nobis praecipuè ad probandum non esse Ecclesiam ibi non est haec successio, quod quidem evidens est: ex quo tamen n• colligitur necessario, ibi esse Ecclesiam ubi est successio. By his own confession then, succession will not prove the Romanists a true Church.
But as to a succession of Religion, and a continuation of the Catholic Church, for my part, I am so far from declining it, in argumentation, that I here solemnly profess to all the Papists ⟨p. 141⟩that shall read these words, that, AS SOON AS I SHALL SEE ANY CERTAIN PROOF, BY CATALOGUE OR ANY OTHER WAY, THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HATH SUCCESSIVELY FROM AGE TO AGE BEEN PAPISTS, I WILL TURN PAPIST WITHOUT DELAY: AND I CHALLENGE THEM TO GIVE US SUCH PROOF IF THEY CAN.