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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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Detect. 26. Another of their Deceits is, by calling us to tell them when every one of their Errors did first begin, and what Pope did bring them in; or else they will not believe but they are from the Apostles.
Detect. 26. ANother of their Deceits is, by calling us to tell them when every one of their Errors did first begin, and what Pope did bring them in; or else they will not believe but they are from the Apostles.
To this Bishop Usher and abundance of our writers have answered them at large. I shall therefore speak but these few, but satisfactory words.
1. It belongs to you to prove the continuance of your Opinions or Practices, more then to us to prove the Beginning. 2. It sufficeth that we prove that there was a time when your errors were not in the Church, and that we can do from the Scriptures and the Fathers, and oft have done. 3. You know your selves of abundance of changes which you know not who ⟨p. 234⟩did first introduce. Who first administered the Lords Supper in one kind only? dare you say that this was from the beginning? Who first laid by the standing on the Lords day, and used kneeling? (forbidden Can. 20. Concil. Nicene. 1. and in other General Councils.) Alvarus Pelagius de planct. Eccles. li. 2. art. 2 fol. 104. saith [The Church bewaileth the sins of the people, but specially of the Clergy as greater then the sin of Sodom: For we see that faith and Justice have forsaken the earth. The Holy Scripture and sacred Canons are accounted as fables—He's now a man of no knowledge that inventeth not Novelties.] You see that then Novelties were brought in. The same Vincentius Lirinensis complaineth of: And not only complaineth of, but giveth Direction what to do in case that [Novella aliqua contagio, non jam portiunculam tantum, sed totam Pariter Ecclesiam commaculare conetur? If any novel contagion shall endeavour to stain not only a part of the Church, but the whole Church alike?] And then his advise is to appeal from Novelty to Antiquity, and not to the Pope or the present Church. And withal he addeth that This Direction is but for [new heresies at their first rising, before they falsify the rules of ancient faith (that is, before they corrupt ancient Writers, or can pretend to Antiquity) and before by the large spreading of the venom, they endeavour to corrupt the volumes of our ancestors. But dilated and inveterate Heresies are not to be set upon this way, because by the long tract of time, they have had a long occasion of stealing Truth: and therefore we must convince such ancient heresies and schisms by no means but by the only Authority of the Scripture, if there be need, or avoid them—] Lirinens. cap. 4 &c.