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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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But you can agree to leave out the second commandment lest the very words should deter the people from Image worship; and to make an irrational division of the tenth to blind their eyes. And yet you cry up the Testimony of the Fathers, when you are fain to hide one of the ten commandments, so that thousands of your poor seduced followers, know not that there is such a thing. No wonder if you cast away Gregory Nyssen's Epistle against Pilgrimages; and Epiphanius his words (in the end of his Epistle to Johan. Herosol.) against Images; and if Vasquez (in 3 Thom. disp. 105. c. 3.) contrary to the plain words do fain that it was the Image of a profane or common man that Epiphanius pulled down; and Al. Cope (Dial. 5. c. 21.) say, that the epistle is counterfeit and not Epiphanius's: and if Bellarmine (de Imag. c. 9.) and Baronius (ad an. 392.) say that this part of the Epistle is forged: and if Alphons. a Castro. (cont. Haeres. de Imag.) reproach Epiphanius for it as an Iconoclast: so well are you agreed also in the confutation of the Fathers Testimonies, that any way will serve your turn, though each man have his several way. Fair fall Vasquez that plainly confesseth, that indeed the Scripture doth forbid not only the worship of an Image for God, but also the worshipping of the true God in an Image: but saith that this commandment is now repealed, and therefore under the Gospel we may do otherwise. (Vasq. li. 2. de Adorat. Disp. 4. c. 3. Sect. 74. 75. &c. 4. Sect. 84.
But you can agree to leave out the second commandment lest the very words should deter the people from Image worship; and to make an irrational division of the tenth to blind their eyes. And yet you cry up the Testimony of the Fathers, when you are fain to hide one of the ten commandments, so that thousands of your poor seduced followers, know not that there is such a thing. No wonder if you cast away Gregory Nyssen's Epistle against Pilgrimages; and Epiphanius his words (in the end of his Epistle to Johan. Herosol.) against Images; and if Vasquez (in 3 Thom. disp. 105. c. 3.) contrary to the plain words do fain that it was the Image of a prophane or common man that Epiphanius puld down; and Al. Cope (Dial. 5. c. 21.) say, that the epistle is counterfeit and not Epiphanius's: and if Bellarmine (de Imag. c. 9.) and Baronius (ad an. 392.) say that this part of the Epistle is forged: and if Alphons. a Castro. (cont. Haeres. de Imag.) reproach Epiphanius for it as an Iconoclast: so well are you agreed also in the confutation of the Fathers Testimonies, that any way will serve your turn, though each man have his several way. Fair fall Vasquez that plainly confesseth, that indeed the Scripture doth forbid not only the worship of an Image for God, but also the worshiping of the true God in an Image: but saith that this commandment is now repealed, and therefore under the Gospel we may do otherwise. (Vasq. li. 2. de Adorat. Disp. 4. c. 3. Sect. 74. 75. &c. 4. Sect. 84.