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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
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.
I must again profess, that when the Papists lay their faith and cause on this, that their Church is Holy, and ours and all other are every man unholy, its almost all one to me as if they said that no men but Papists have souls in their bodies, and laid their faith on this; and as soon I think should I believe them, if this were their belief. Its a good preservative against Popery, when a man cannot turn Papist without putting out his eyes, and renouncing his wit, and reason, and common experience, as well as his charity; yea without denying of what he knoweth by his own soul!
But let us come to their Evidences. 1. They say, We have no Canonized Saints. I answer 1. All the Apostles and Saints of the first ages were of our Religion, and many of them have been beholden to the Pope for Canonizing them.
2. We have no usurper among us that pretendeth Infallibly to know the hearts of others, nor to number Gods Saints. But with us, the Holy Ghost maketh Saints, and their lives declare it; and those that converse with them discern it, so far as to be highly confident, and men discern it in themselves, so far as to be Infallibly (though not perfectly) certain.