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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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And were the Churches better in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or following Ages? I doubt not. And I judge by these discoveries. 1. By the sad Histories of the Crimes of those times.
And were the Churches better in the third, fourth, fift, sixt, or following Ages? I doubt not. And I judge by these discoveries. 1. By the sad Histories of the Crimes of those times.
2. By the lamentable complaints of the Godly Fathers, of the Bishops, and people of their times. What doleful complaints do Basil, Gregory Nazianz. and Greg. Nyssen, and Chrysostom, Austin, &c. make? (it were too long to recite their words.) What complaints made Gildas of the British Church? What a doleful description have we of the Christian Pastors and People in his days, from Salvian, through his whole Book de Gubernat.?
2. By the lamentable complaints of the Godly Fathers, of the Bishops, and people of their times. What dolefull complaints do Basil, Gregory Nazianz. and Greg. Nyssen, and Chrysostom, Austin, &c. make? (it were too long to recite their words.) What complaints made Gildas of the Brittish Church? What a doleful description have we of the Christian Pastors and People in his dayes, from Salvian, through his whole Book de Gubernat.?
3. I judge also by the Canons, and by the Fathers directions concerning Offenders. For example; Gregory Mag. saith of drunkards [Quod cum venia suo ingenio sunt relinquendi, ne deteriores fiant, si à tali consuetudine evellantur.] And was this the Roman Sanctity even then? And was this St. Gregory's Sanctity? that Drunkards must be let alone with pardon, lest if they be forced from their custom, they be made worse! Then fair fall the Ministers of England: If such advice were but given by one of us, it would seem enough to cast us out of our Ministry. We dare not let one drunkard alone in our Church-communion, where Church-discipline is set up.