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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.
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.
The second is Clem. Apostol. Constit. 5. Answ. 1. The words speak only of honouring the Martyrs, which is our unquestioned duty; but not of Praying to them. 2. Its an Apocryphal forgery, and neither the Apostles nor Clements Work which he citeth (but any thing will serve these men:) Let him believe Bellarmine de scriptor. Eccles. pag. 38, 39. where he proveth it, and saith that [in the Latin Church, these Constitutions are of almost no account, and the Greeks themselves Canon. 2. Trul. reject them as depraved by Heretics, and that the receiving of them is it that misleadeth the Ethiopians.] See more against them in Cooks Censurâ, pag. 17, 18, 19. and Rivets Crit. Sac. & Dalaeus in Pseudepigrap.
The second is Clem. Apostol. Constit. 5. Answ. 1. The words speak only of honouring the Martyrs, which is our unquestioned duty; but not of Praying to them. 2. Its an Apochryphal forgery, and neither the Apostles nor Clements Work which he citeth (but any thing will serve these men:) Let him believe Bellarmine de scriptor. Eccles. pag. 38, 39. where he proveth it, and saith that [in the Latine Church, these Constitutions are of almost no account, and the Greeks themselves Canon. 2. Trul. reject them as depraved by Hereticks, and that the receiving of them is it that misleadeth the Aethiopians.] See more against them in Cooks Censurâ, pag. 17, 18, 19. and Rivets Crit. Sac. & Dalaeus in Pseudepigrap.