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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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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.
3. It seems the Pope takes Saints to be rare with them, that they must be named and written with red Letters in an Almanac: And H. T. Man. pag. 84. is fain to send us for proof to their Chronicles and Martyrologies; and he nameth four Saints that they have had, viz. Saint Austin the Monk, Saint Bennet, Saint Dominick, and Saint Francis. Now we all know that none but Saints are saved, and that without holiness none can see God, Heb. 12. 14. So that it seems if sanctity be so rare among the Papists, salvation must be rare
3. It seems the Pope takes Saints to be rare with them, that they must be named and written with red Letters in an Almanack: And H. T. Man. pag. 84. is fain to send us for proof to their Chronicles and Martyrologies; and he nameth four Saints that they have had, viz. Saint Austin the Monk, Saint Bennet, Saint Dominick, and Saint Francis. Now we all know that none but Saints are saved, and that without holiness none can see God, Heb. 12. 14. So that it seems if sanctity be so rare among the Papists, salvation must be rare
But as for us, we make it our care to admit none but Saints to our Church Communion: though we preach to others to prepare them for it: For we believe that the Church is a Holy Society, and find Paul calling the whole Churches that he writes to, by the title of [Saints,] and we believe it is [the Communion of Saints] that is there to be held. And if we had no more Saints in one County at once, yea in some one Parish at once,