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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 of this point I shall say no more now but this. 1. Many Christian Churches do reject Images from their Churches and worship as well as Protestants. 2. More reject statues that reject not pictures. 3. Many that keep them, worship not them, nor God in them, or by them, as by a mediate object. 4. General Councils have been against Images, that want nothing but the pleasure of the Pope to make them of as good authority as the Council that was for them. 5. That Council that was for them (Nice 2.) condemneth the Schoolmen and Pope Clement himself as Heretics, ⟨p. 168⟩for worshipping them, or the Cross with Divine worship. 6. I again urge any Papist to answer Dallaeus book rationally that can. 7. To spare me the labour of saying more of the judgement of the ancient Catholic Church against the Popish use of Images, I desire the Reader to peruse what Cassander an honest Papist hath written to that end, Consultat. de Imag. et simulac. who begins thus [Ad Imagines vero sanctorum quod attinet, certum est, initio praedicati Evangelii aliquanto tempore inter Christianos, praesertim in ecclesiis, imaginum usum non fuisse, ut ex Clemente & Arnobio patet: Tandem picturas in ecclesiam admissas ut rerum gestarum historiam exprimentes &c.—] And he produceth abundance from antiquity against the present Popish use of them.
But of this point I shall say no more now but this. 1. Many Christian Churches do reject Images from their Churches and worship as well as Protestants. 2. More reject statues that reject not pictures. 3. Many that keep them, worship not them, nor God in them, or by them, as by a mediate object. 4. General Councils have been against Images, that want nothing but the pleasure of the Pope to make them of as good authority as the Council that was for them. 5. That Council that was for them (Nice 2.) condemneth the Schoolmen and Pope Clement himself as Hereticks, ⟨p. 168⟩for worshiping them, or the Cross with Divine worship. 6. I again urge any Papist to answer Dallaeus book rationally that can. 7. To spare me the labour of saying more of the judgement of the ancient Catholick Church against the Popish use of Images, I desire the Reader to peruse what Cassander an honest Papist hath written to that end, Consultat. de Imag. et simulac. who begins thus [Ad Imagines vero sanctorum quod attinet, certum est, initio praedicati Evangelii aliquanto tempore inter Christianos, praesertim in ecclesiis, imaginum usum non fuisse, ut ex Clemente & Arnobio patet: Tandem picturas in ecclesiam admissas ut rerum gestarum historiam exprimentes &c.—] And he produceth abundance from antiquity against the present Popish use of them.