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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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When in the Preface of my Book against Popery, called The Safe Religion, I had truly spoken my experience, that I had never the happiness to be acquainted with any Papist of a serious spiritual temper, and holy life, but only some of a Ceremonious formal kind of Religion, and but with very few that lived not in some gross sin, I was passionately censured by some of the Papists, as one that condemned all for some. When as 1. I only spoke of my own acquaintance. 2. And I added withal, that yet I was confident that God had his servants among them, though I had not the happiness to know them. 3. And is it not a ridiculous business, that these same men should be so passionate with me, for speaking but the truth, concerning the ungodliness of some of them, when at the same time they make it an Article of their faith, and an essential point of Popery, That no one Protestant hath charity, or can be saved; yea, that no Christian in the world is sanctified really, and can be saved, but a Papist. O the partiality of these men! 4. Yea when they necessitate us to mention their ungodliness, by calling us to it, and laying the stress of all our cause upon the point: yea laying the very Christian faith it self upon the Holiness of their Church. For we must not know that Scripture is Gods word, or that Christianity is the true Religion, till we first know that the Church of ⟨p. 215⟩Rome is the true Church, that we may receive it on their credit: And we must know that they are the true Church by being the only Holy people in the world. I must profess that if my faith lay on this foundation, I know so much of the falsehood of it, that I must needs turn infidel: and I can no more believe this, then I can believe that the snow is not white.
When in the Preface of my Book against Popery, called The Safe Religion, I had truly spoken my experience, that I had never the happiness to be acquainted with any Papist of a serious spiritual temper, and holy life, but only some of a Ceremonious formall kind of Religion, and but with very few that lived not in some gross sin, I was passionately censured by some of the Papists, as one that condemned all for some. When as 1. I only spoke of my own acquaintance. 2. And I added withall, that yet I was confident that God had his servants among them, though I had not the happiness to know them. 3. And is it not a ridiculous business, that these same men should be so passionate with me, for speaking but the truth, concerning the ungodliness of some of them, when at the same time they make it an Article of their faith, and an essential point of Popery, That no one Protestant hath charity, or can be saved; yea, that no Christian in the world is sanctified really, and can be saved, but a Papist. O the partiality of these men! 4. Yea when they necessitate us to mention their ungodliness, by calling us to it, and laying the stress of all our cause upon the point: yea laying the very Christian faith it self upon the Holiness of their Church. For we must not know that Scripture is Gods word, or that Christianity is the true Religion, till we first know that the Church of