A26947:631
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.
5. The Reason why in the old Testament men were not wont to pray to Saints, Bellarmine saith was, because then they did not enter into heaven nor see God. Bellar. de sanct. Beat. li. 2. cap. 19. So Suarez in the third part, Tom. 2. disp. 42. Sect. 1. But abundance of the chief Doctors of the Church for divers Ages were of opinion that the Saints are not admitted into Heaven to the clear sight of God before the day of Judgement (as most of the Eastern Churches do to this day) therefore they could not be for the Popish Prayer to Saints.
And here again observe, that men may be of the same faith and Church with us, that differ and err in as great a matter as this. The Council of Florence hath now defined it, that departed souls are admitted into Heaven to the clear sight of God: And yet Stapleton and Francis. Pegna. à Castro, Medina, Sotus, affirm that Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clemens Romanus, Origen, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Austin, Lactantius, Victorinus, Prudentius, Theodoret, Aretas, Oecumenius, Theophilact, Euthymius, yea and Bernard, have delivered the contrary sentence. See Staplet. Defens. Eccles. author. cont. Whitak. lib. 1. cap. 2. with Fran. Pegna in part. 2. Director. Inquisitor. come. 21.
And here again observe, that men may be of the same faith and Church with us, that differ and err in as great a matter as this. The Council of Florence hath now defined it, that departed souls are admitted into Heaven to the clear sight of God: And yet Stapleton and Francis. Pegna. à Castro, Medina, Sotus, affirm that Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clemens Romanus, Origen, Ambrose, Chrysostome, Austin, Lactantius, Victorinus, Prudentius, Theodoret, Aretas, Oecumenius, Theophilact, Euthymius, yea and Bernard, have delivered the contrary sentence. See Staplet. Defens. Eccles. author. cont. Whitak. lib. 1. cap. 2. with Fran. Pegna in part. 2. Director. Inquisitor. com. 21.