A26947:879
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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You know that among the Primitive Fathers, whose writings are come to our hands, many errors had the Major vote, as that of the Corporeity of Angels, (which your second General Council at Nice owned) and their Copulation with women before the flood, the Millenary conceit, and many more which you confess to be errors. Tell us when any of these came in, if you can (unless you will believe that Papias received the last from John, and then its no error.) Who did first bring the Asian Churches to celebrate Easter at a season differing from yours? Who first brought the Britons to it? Nay we know not certainly who first Converted many Nations on earth, nor when they first received their Christianity: and how then should we know when they first received each error?
You know that among the Primitive Fathers, whose writings are come to our hands, many errors had the Major vote, as that of the Corporeity of Angels, (which your second General Council at Nice owned) and their Copulation with women before the flood, the Millenary conceit, and many more which you confess to be errors. Tell us when any of these came in, if you can (unless you will believe that Papias received the last from John, and then its no error.) Who did first bring the Asian Churches to celebrate Easter at a season differing from yours? Who first brought the Brittains to it? Nay we know not certainly who first Converted many Nations on earth, nor when they first received their Christianity: and how then should we know when they first received each error?
And we find that good men did bring in Novelties; and what was by them introduced as indifferent, would easily by custom grow to seem Necessary: and what they received as a doubtful opinion, would easily grow to be esteemed a point of Faith. The Presbyters and whole Clergy of Neocaesarea were offended with Basil for his Innovations, viz. for bringing in a new Psalmody, or way of singing to God; and for his new order of Monastics: and they told him that none of this was so in Gregory's days; and what answereth Basil? He denieth not the Novelty of his Psalmody, but retorts again on them, that ⟨p. 239⟩