A26947:697
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.
The other is Hieroms testimony de Script. Eccless. who citing the fore-cited words, saith [The travails therefore of Paul and Thecla, and the whole fable of the baptized Lyon, we reckon among Apocryphal writings: For how can it be that the inseparable ⟨p. 181⟩companion of the Apostle (Luke) was ignorant of this only among all his matters?]
But yet Baronius thinks that these are not the same Books that Tertullian and Hierom speak against: and why so? Because 1. Here is no mention of Thecla's Preaching and Baptizing, nor of the Lyon baptized. 2. Because so many Fathers attest the story. But the first is a visible falsehood, contrary to the express words of the story, which feign Paul to have sent her to preach as a true Apostle, and mention her baptizing the people of Seleucia. And for the baptized Lyon, perhaps Hierom spoke de baptismate sanguinis: and meant the Lyon that dyed in the defence of Thecla: And in that place Thecla is brought as calling Death a Baptism: However that word which might easily be mistaken, is no great disproof that this is the same story. And for the Fathers Testimony, as we believe that a famous Martyr called Thecla there was, from whence the occasion of the story rose, so it doth but show how unfit the Fathers are to be the Authors of our Faith, or to be esteemed infallible, that so easily believe and recite the forged stories of an Asiatic Presbyter, even when Tertullian had before revealed the deceit.
But yet Baronius thinks that these are not the same Books that Tertullian and Hierom speak against: and why so? Because 1. Here is no mention of Theclaes Preaching and Baptizing, nor of the Lyon baptized. 2. Because so many Fathers attest the story. But the first is a visible falshood, contrary to the express words of the story, which feign Paul to have sent her to preach as a true Apostle, and mention her baptizing the people of Seleucia. And for the baptized Lyon, perhaps Hierom spoke de baptismate sanguinis: and meant the Lyon that dyed in the defence of Thecla: And in that place Thecla is brought as calling Death a Baptism: However that word which might easily be mistaken, is no great disproof that this is the same story. And for the Fathers Testimony, as we believe that a famous Martyr called Thecla there was, from whence the occasion of the story rose, so it doth but shew how unfit the Fathers are to be the Authors of our Faith, or to be esteemed infallible, that so easily believe and recite the forged stories of an Asiatick Presbyter, even when Tertullian had before revealed the deceit.