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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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One Instance more: The second Council of Nice that decreed for Image-Worship, doth yet expressly decree that Latria, Divine worship is to be given only to God; Thomas Aquinas sum. 3. q. 25. art. 3. & 4. purposely maintaineth that Latria, Divine Worship is to be given to the Image of Christ, and to the Cross that he dyed on; and to the sign of that Cross. Here is an Article of their faith expressly contradicted: And yet Aquinas is a member of their Church; And if any say, he is no member, its proved past doubt, for the Pope hath Canonized him for a Saint: So that now it is a part of their Religion to take him for a true believer: And Albertinus hath (as he thinks) proved, that though in many other matters of fact the Pope be fallible, yet in the Canonizing of Saints he is infallible, because of some promise of Gods special assistance (if one knew where to find it.) Abundance of such Instances might be brought that prove, that the Papists own men as true believers, ⟨p. 157⟩that deny or contradict Articles of their faith. But what need we more, then that France and thousands elsewhere are yet members of their Church, that deny the Lateran and Florentine definition for the Popes Supremacy above a General Council? and when most Papists hold that Angels are incorporeal, contrary to the definition of the said second Council of Nice. And therefore by their own law, nay much more, we may well say that those were of our Religion that differed from us in nothing that is indeed or our esteem Essential to the faith. Now to a few particulars.
One Instance more: The second Council of Nice that decreed for Image-Worship, doth yet expresly decree that Latria, Divine worship is to be given only to God; Thomas Aquinas sum. 3. q. 25. art. 3. & 4. purposely maintaineth that Latria, Divine Worship is to be given to the Image of Christ, and to the Cross that he dyed on; and to the sign of that Cross. Here is an Article of their faith expresly contradicted: And yet Aquinas is a member of their Church; And if any say, he is no member, its proved past doubt, for the Pope hath Canonized him for a Saint: So that now it is a part of their Religion to take him for a true believer: And Albertinus hath (as he thinks) proved, that though in many other matters of fact the Pope be fallible, yet in the Canonizing of Saints he is infallible, because of some promise of Gods speciall assistance (if one knew where to find it.) Abundance of such Instances might be brought that prove, that the Papists own men as true believers, ⟨p. 157⟩