A26947:647
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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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.
3. Another point that they much challenge us about, is, The Veneration or Adoration of Images, Reliques, 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 Monasticks even in those Countreyes that were near Judaea, 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 perswade the world that this Epistle was none of Gregories, and when they were made ashamed of that, they would expound it as prohibiting Pilgrimages to none but the Monasticks: 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 Gretsers frivilous answers, and judge as thou seest cause.