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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.
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.
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 Jesuite.
3. Another point that they much challenge us about, is, The Veneration or Adoration of Images, Relics, and the Cross, to which I may join, peregrinations to places esteemed by them to be of eminent holiness. Concerning Peregrinations, you may see by a plain Epistle of Gregory Nyssen (in the end of his printed works, but in the midst of a M. S. in Paris Library) written purposely against going on Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, what is to be thought of this. He adviseth even the retired Monastics even in those Countries that were near Judea, to forbear such Pilgrimages as dangerous and unnecessary, and not at all commanded ⟨p. 163⟩in the Scripture. The Papists did as long as they could persuade the world that this Epistle was none of Gregory's, and when they were made ashamed of that, they would expound it as prohibiting Pilgrimages to none but the Monastics: And sure if it should be forbidden them, then much more should others be forbidden, that have not the leisure, and pretend not to the devotions which these pretend to. Read but the Epistle it self without either Molinaeus his notes on our side, or Gretser's frivolous answers, and judge as thou seest cause.