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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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And its further to be noted, that as Pegna, Stapleton and others confess, the Fathers, Greek and Latin, before mentioned, did believe that men had not their perfect Joys till the Resurrection; and therefore they had the far stronger motive to pray for the dead. And if Protestants had not been partly of this mind (save only that we put not the soul into hidden receptacles, nor anywhere but with Christ) Bellarmine had not found so much occasion of that unworthy calumny against Calvin for the words cited by him in his Instit. as if he denied the beatifical vision, if not the immortality of the soul: Even because he took not our bliss to be perfect till the Resurrection, but somewhat short of what we shall then be. Now seeing the Fathers were so commonly of that mind, and the Greeks and Ethiopians are still of that mind, and Bellarmine saith Luther and Calvin are of that mind, you may see that neither in that nor the point of praying for the dead as used by the ancients, is our distance so great as to weaken the proof of our succession, or make us to be of two Churches or Religions.
And its further to be noted, that as Pegna, Stapleton and others confess, the Fathers, Greek and Latine, before mentioned, did believe that men had not their perfect Joyes till the Resurrection; and therefore they had the far stronger motive to pray for the dead. And if Protestants had not been partly of this mind (save only that we put not the soul into hidden receptacles, nor anywhere but with Christ) Bellarmine had not found so much occasion of that unworthy calumny against Calvin for the words cited by him in his Instit. as if he denyed the beatifical vision, if not the immortality of the soul: Even because he took not our bliss to be perfect till the Resurrection, but somewhat short of what we shall then be. Now seeing the Fathers were so commonly of that mind, and the Greeks and Aethiopians are still of that mind, and Bellarmine saith Luther and Calvin are of that mind, you may see that neither in that nor the point of praying for the dead as used by the ancients, is our distance so great as to weaken the proof of our succession, or make us to be of two Churches or Religions.
And here you may see the differences between the Prayers for the dead which are used by the Papists, and by the Eastern Churches to this day. And yet if upon private unsound opinions any should go somewhat further in this point, it followeth not that such error changeth the faith. I desire the Reader that would have a fuller sight of the face of Antiquity in this point, to read Bishop Usher of it in the forementioned Answer to the Jesuit.