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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.
6. The Council of Laodicea condemned them as Idolaters that prayed to Angels, Can. 35. (which Caranza, Crab, and other Papists have turned into Angulos; whose falsification you may see fully detected by the said Bishop Usher, ibid. pag. 470. 471, 472. Read there also the full Testimonies of Greg. Nissen, Athanasius, Epiphanius, &c. against praying to Saints and Angels, and the detection of Bellarmines fraud, that pretendeth the Fathers to speak of the Gentiles Idolatry when they mention the Virgin Mary and the Saints, and say expressly they were not to be adored.
6. The Council of Laodicea condemned them as Idolaters that prayed to Angels, Can. 35. (which Caranza, Crab, and other Papists have turned into Angulos; whose falsification you may see fully detected by the said Bishop Usher, ibid. pag. 470. 471, 472. Read there also the full Testimonies of Greg. Nissen, Athanasius, Epiphanius, &c. against praying to Saints and Angels, and the detection of Bellarmines fraud, that pretendeth the Fathers to speak of the Gentiles Idolatry when they mention the Virgin Mary and the Saints, and say expresly they were not to be adored.
But for all this, H. T. Manual. page 291, &c. hath Fathers for this Adoration of Angels and Saints. And who are they? The first is Dionysius: to which I answer, 1. There is never a such a word in the place cited in Dionysius, in the Book that I have at hand, printed Lugdun. 1572. 2. We are for praying the Saints to pray for us too, that is, those on earth: And the words cited by him, mention not the Saints in heaven. 3. That Dionysius is not Dionysius but a spurious Apocryphal Book: Not once known and mentioned in the world till Gregory the greats days, (six hundred years after Christ) as Bellarmine himself saith Lib. de Scriptor. Eccles. de Dionys. And lib. 2. de Monach. cap. 5.
But for all this, H. T. Manual. page 291, &c. hath Fathers for this Adoration of Angels and Saints. And who are they? The first is Dionysius: to which I answer, 1. There is never a such a word in the place cited in Dionysius, in the Book that I have at hand, printed Lugdun. 1572. 2. We are for praying the Saints to pray for us too, that is, those on earth: And the words cited by him, mention not the Saints in heaven. 3. That Dionysius is not Dionysius but a spurious Apochryphal Book: Not once known and mentioned in the world till Gregory the greats dayes, (six hundred years after Christ) as Bellarmine himself saith Lib. de Scriptor. Eccles. de Dionys. And lib. 2. de Monach. cap. 5.