A26947:630
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.
2. But yet we must tell you that the Primitive Church was unacquainted with the Romish prayer to Saints. Till the end of the fourth Century they are not able to prove that ever three men (if any one) were for any prayer to the Dead at all, except such a conditional speech in an Oration as Greg. Nazianzen hath [If holy souls have any care or feeling of such things as these, receive this Oration] Orat. 11. I entreat the Reader that needeth information of the way of Antiquity in this point, to read Bishop Ushers Answer to the Jesuit on this point, page 418, &c. Where he saith that [for nine parts of the first four hundred years, he dare be bold to say that the Jesuit is not able to produce so much as one true testimony out of any Father whereby it may appear that any account at all was made of it] Where he citeth the full express words of the Fathers of those first ages against praying to Saints, as Origen in Jus. Hom. 16. And in Rom. lib. 2. cap. 2. And Contr. Celsum lib. 8. page 432, 433, 406, 411, 412. & lib. 5. pag. 239. Tertullian Apol. cap. 30. Tertullian and Cyprian of Prayer: Athanasius Orat. 4. Cont. Arrium pag. 259, 260. Eccles. Smyrn. apud Euseb. Hist. lib. 4. &c. I am loth to recite what is there already given you. ⟨p. 158⟩3. And when Prayer to the dead did come in, how exceedingly it differed from the Romish Prayers to the dead, I pray you read there in the same Author. 4. And also of those Adorations and Devotions offered by the Papists to the Virgin Mary, I desire you to read in the same Author, and Place, enough to make a Christian tremble, and which for my part I am not able to excuse from horrid Blasphemy or Idolatry, though I am willing to put the best interpretation on their words that reason will allow.
2. But yet we must tell you that the Primitive Church was unacquainted with the Romish prayer to Saints. Till the end of the fourth Century they are not able to prove that ever three men (if any one) were for any prayer to the Dead at all, except such a conditional speech in an Oration as Greg. Nazianzen hath [If holy souls have any care or feeling of such things as these, receive this Oration] Orat. 11. I intreat the Reader that needeth information of the way of Antiquity in this point, to read Bishop Ushers Answer to the Jesuite on this point, page 418, &c. Where he saith that [for nine parts of the first four hundred years, he dare be bold to say that the Jesuite is not able to produce so much as one true testimony out of any Father whereby it may appear that any account at all was made of it] Where he citeth the full express words of the Fathers of those first ages against praying to Saints, as Origen in Jus. Hom. 16. And in Rom. lib. 2. cap. 2. And Contr. Celsum lib. 8. page 432, 433, 406, 411, 412. & lib. 5. pag. 239. Tertullian Apol. cap. 30. Tertullian and Cyprian of Prayer: Athanasius Orat. 4. Cont. Arrium pag. 259, 260. Eccles. Smyrn. apud Euseb. Hist. lib. 4. &c. I am loth to recite what is there already given you.