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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
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And I would desire H. T. to revise his Catalogue, and instead of twenty or thirty dead and silent names, that signify no more then Blanks or Cyphers, he would prove that both those persons and the Catholic Church did in every age hold these thirty two forementioned doctrines. And when hath done, then let him boast of his Catalogue. Till they will perform this task, let them never more for shame call to us for Catalogues or proof of succession. But if they are so unkind that they will not give us any proof of such a Catholic succession of Popery, we shall be ready to supererogate, and give them full proof of the Negative, [That there hath been no such succession of these thirty two points,] as soon as we can perceive that they will ingeniously entertain it: though indeed it hath been often done already.
And I would desire H. T. to revise his Catalogue, and instead of twenty or thirty dead and silent names, that signifie no more then Blanks or Cyphers, he would prove that both those persons and the Catholick Church did in every age hold these thirty two forementioned doctrines. And when hath done, then let him boast of his Catalogue. Till they will perform this task, let them never more for shame call to us for Catalogues or proof of succession. But if they are so unkind that they will not give us any proof of such a Catholick succession of Popery, we shall be ready to supererogate, and give them full proof of the Negative, [That there hath been no such succession of these thirty two points,] as soon as we can perceive that they will ingeniously entertain it: though indeed it hath been often done already.
But certainly it belongeth to them that superinduce more Articles of Faith, to prove the continuation of their own Articles through all ages; of which anon.
Well! but one of these Articles at least (the Popes Sovereignty) H. T. will prove successively, if you will be credulous enough. In the first age he proves it from Peters words,