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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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4. I have in another Book showed you out of many of your own writers the rise of divers of your vanities. And Usher hath told the Jesuit more: and so he hath told you of your thriving to your present height, in his Book de success. & statu Eccles. And so hath Mornay in his Mystery of Iniquity, and Rivet in the Defence of him against Cofferellus; and Pet. Molinaeus hath purposely written a Book de Novitate Papismi, & Antiquitate very Christianismi, showing the Newness of Popery in the several parts of it. To these therefore I remit you for Answer to this Objection.
4. I have in another Book shewed you out of many of your own writers the rise of divers of your vanities. And Usher hath told the Jesuite more: and so he hath told you of your thriving to your present height, in his Book de success. & statu Eccles. And so hath Mornay in his Mysterie of Iniquity, and Rivet in the Defense of him against Cofferellus; and Pet. Molinaeus hath purposely written a Book de Novitate Papismi, & Antiquitate veri Christianismi, shewing the Newness of Popery in the several parts of it. To these therefore I remit you for Answer to this Objection.
5. Can you tell us your selves, when many of your doctrines or practices sprung up? When took you up your Sabbaths fast, for which you have been condemned by a Council? You know that when the twentieth Canon of the Nicene Council was made, and when the Canons at Trull. were made, it was the Practice of the Church through the known world, to pray and perform other worship standing, and to avoid kneeling on the Lords Day. Tell us when this Canon and Tradition was first violated by you, and by whom? It was once the custom of your Church to give Infants the Eucharist; who first broke it off? It was once your practice to Communicate in both kinds: who first denied the Cup to the Laity? At first it was only a doubtful Opinion, that Saints are to be Prayed to, and the dead prayed for, which came into mens minds about the third or fourth Century? But who first made them Articles of faith? Augustine began to doubt, whether there were not some kind of Purgatory: But who first made this also a point of faith? Who was it that first added the Books of the Maccabees and many others to the Canon of Scripture, contrary to the Council of Laodicaea, and all the rest of the consent of Antiquity, which Dr. Reignolds, Dr. Cousin and others have produced? Who was it that first taught and practised the putting an Oath to all the Clergy of the Christian Church within your power to be true