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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
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.
If Pope Zosimus had but had his will, and the Fathers of the Carthage Council had not diligently discovered, shamed, and resisted his forgery, the world had received a new Nicene Canon, and we should never have known the Original of it.
Its a considerable Instance that Usher brings, of using the Church service in a known tongue. The Latin tongue was the Vulgar tongue, when the Liturgy and Scripture was first written in it (at Rome and far and near it was understood by all.) The service was not changed, as to the language: but the language it self changed; and so Scripture and Liturgy came to be in an unknown tongue; And when did the Latin tongue cease to be understood by all? Tell us what year, or by whom the change was made? saith Erasmus (Decl. ad censur. Paris. tit. 12. §. 41.) [The Vulgar tongue was not taken from the people, but the people departed from it.
Its a considerable Instance that Usher brings, of using the Church service in a known tongue. The Latine tongue was the Vulgar tongue, when the Liturgy and Scripture was first written in it (at Rome and far and neer it was understood by all.) The service was not changed, as to the language: but the language it self changed; and so Scripture and Liturgy came to be in an unknown tongue; And when did the Latine tongue cease to be understood by all? Tell us what year, or by whom the change was made? saith Erasmus (Decl. ad censur. Paris. tit. 12. §. 41.) [The Vulgar tongue was not taken from the people, but the people departed from it.
5. We are certain that your errors were not in the times of the Apostles, nor long after, and therefore we are sure that they are Innovations. And if I find a man in a Dropsy, or a Consumption, I would not tell him that he is well, and ought not to seek remedy, unless he can tell when he began to be ill, and what caused it.