A26947:869
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.
Were there not abundance of Novelties introduced, when Augustine ad Januarium said that [They load our Religion with servile burdens, which God in mercy would have to be free, with a very few and most manifest Sacraments of Celebration, so that the condition of the Jews was more tolerable, that were subject to Legal Sacraments, and not to the presumptions of men] These words of Austin your own Joh. Gerson reciting (de vita spirit. animae. lect. 2. par. 3.) addeth of his own [Si tuo tempore, &c. If in thy days thou didst thus mourn. Oh wise Augustine, what wouldst thou have said in our time: where according to the variety, ⟨p. 235⟩and motion of heads, there is incredible variety and dissonant multiplicity of such servile burdens, and as thou callest them, of humane presumptions. Among which, as so many snares of souls, and entangling nets, there's scarce any man that walks secure, and is not taken (or catched.)]
Were there not abundance of Novelties introduced, when Augustine ad Januarium said that [They load our Religion with servile burdens, which God in mercy would have to be free, with a very few and most manifest Sacraments of Celebration, so that the condition of the Jews was more tolerable, that were subject to Legall Sacraments, and not to the presumptions of men] These words of Austin your own Joh. Gerson reciting (de vita spirit. animae. lect. 2. par. 3.) addeth of his own [Si tuo tempore, &c. If in thy dayes thou didst thus mourn. Oh wise Augustine, what wouldst thou have said in our time: where according to the variety, ⟨p. 235⟩and motion of heads, there is incredible variety and dissonant multiplicity of such servile burdens, and as thou callest them, of humane presumptions. Among which, as so many snares of souls, and entangling nets, there's scarce any man that walks secure, and is not taken (or catcht.)]
How think you now in the Judgement of Augustine and Gerson; whether there have any Novelties been brought into the Church; and whether all your Presumptions and burdens, and (as Gerson calls them) halters for souls, have come from the Apostles, or are your own? When all is thus overcome with Novelty, do you make any question whether any thing be new?