A26947:696
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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I have instanced but in this one case of Thecla, because it would be endless to tell you of all the rest of their fictions (were I acquainted with them all) Nor do I mention this as one of their Legends, no nor as a piece of Metaphrastes, but as the works of St. Basil (not Basil the great) an ancient Father. Now either this is Basils work, or it is not. If it be not, then you see what trust is to be given to the Papists Antiquities, and supposed Fathers: For this is one of them, and this story vindicated by Petrus Pantinus, yea by no less a man then the Great Baronius, the Master of Antiquities, who Annal. Tom. 1. ad. An. D. 47. bringeth a whole Army of Fathers to attest the Acts of Thecla, and approveth of this of Basils, and the like of Metaphrastes. Two Testimonies trouble him shrewdly. One is no later then Tertullian, who (de Baptis. cap. 18.) saith thus [But if any women read the pretended writings of Paul, and defend the example of Thecla, for women's Liberty to teach and baptise, let them know that a Presbyter in Asia, that framed that writing, putting Pauls name instead of his own, was cast out of his place, being convicted of it, and confessing that he did it in love to Paul.]
I have instanced but in this one case of Thecla, because it would be endless to tell you of all the rest of their fictions (were I acquainted with them all) Nor do I mention this as one of their Legends, no nor as a piece of Metaphrastes, but as the works of St. Basil (not Basil the great) an ancient Father. Now either this is Basils work, or it is not. If it be not, then you see what trust is to be given to the Papists Antiquities, and supposed Fathers: For this is one of them, and this story vindicated by Petrus Pantinus, yea by no less a man then the Great Baronius, the Master of Antiquities, who Annal. Tom. 1. ad. An. D. 47. bringeth a whole Army of Fathers to attest the Acts of Thecla, and approveth of this of Basils, and the like of Metaphrastes. Two Testimonies trouble him shrewdly. One is no later then Tertullian, who (de Baptis. cap. 18.) saith thus [But if any women read the pretended writings of Paul, and defend the example of Thecla, for womens Liberty to teach and baptise, let them know that a Presbyter in Asia, that framed that writing, putting Pauls name instead of his own, was cast out of his place, being convicted of it, and confessing that he did it in love to Paul.]