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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.
As for Images, we allow the Historical use of them, and the setting them up in Churches the Lutherans allow, and we dislike it only as dangerous and a needless snare, but take not our selves to be of another Church or Religion from those that are otherwise minded: No nor from those that Reverence them as they respect the persons whom they signify. But its one thing to use Images, and another thing to use them Popishly, which is to make them mediate objects of Divine worship, yea to worship the very Image it self, and the Cross and the sign of the Cross with the same worship as we do him that is signified by them: So that we confidently affirm, 1. That the Primitive Church did make no use of Images at all in the worship of God; no nor endure them in the place of Worship. 2. That when they were first brought in, the Popish use of them was still renounced and detested. Clemens Alexandrinus Protreptic. ad Gent. saith that [We are plainly forbidden to use that deceitful Art] (of painting or image-making)—And [We have no sensible Image made of any sensible matter, but such an Image as is to be conceived with the understanding] Origen against Celsus lib. 7. page 373, 384, 386. 387. is large and plain against this use of Images, as the Protestants are. And the Eliber. Concil. C. 36. saith [Placuit picturas in Ecclesia esse non debere, ne quod colitur, aut adoratur in parietibus depingatur. It seemeth good to us, that Pictures ought not to be in the Church, lest that which is worshipped or adored should be painted on Walls] Some Papists would fain find a sense for this (anon contrary to the words: But Melch Canus plainly saith, that the Council did not only imprudently but impiously make this law to take away Images, Loc. Theol. lib. 5. cap. 4. conc. 4. I shall cite no more, but entreat the Reader that is willing to be informed how much ⟨p. 164⟩Antiquity was against the Papists in the points of Images, to peruse only Dallaeus de Imaginibus, and Usher in his Answer to the Jesuit and Sermon to the Parliament: And I provoke the Papists to confute what is in them alleged if they can.
As for Images, we allow the Historical use of them, and the setting them up in Churches the Lutherans allow, and we dislike it only as dangerous and a needless snare, but take not our selves to be of another Church or Religion from those that are otherwise minded: No nor from those that Reverence them as they respect the persons whom they signifie. But its one thing to use Images, and another thing to use them Popishly, which is to make them mediate objects of Divine worship, yea to worship the very Image it self, and the Cross and the sign of the Cross with the same worship as we do him that is signified by them: So that we confidently affirm, 1. That the Primitive Church did make no use of Images at all in the worship of God; no nor endure them in the place of Worship. 2. That when they were first brought in, the Popish use of them was still renounced and detested. Clemens Alexandrinus Protreptic. ad Gent. saith that [We are plainly forbidden to use that deceitfull Art] (of painting or image-making)—And [We have no sensible Image made of any sensible matter, but such an Image as is to be conceived with the understanding] Origen against Celsus lib. 7. page 373, 384, 386. 387. is large and plain against this use of Images, as the Protestants are. And the Eliber. Concil. C. 36. saith [Placuit picturas in Ecclesia esse non debere, ne quod colitur, aut adoratur in parietibus depingatur. It seemeth good to us, that Pictures ought not to be in the Church, lest that which is worshipped or adored should be painted on Walls] Some Papists would sain find a sense for this (anon contrary to the words: But Melch Canus plainly saith, that the Council did not only imprudently but impiously make this law to take away Images, Loc. Theol. lib. 5. cap. 4. conc. 4. I shall cite no more, but intreat the Reader that is willing to be informed how much