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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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A Confutation of a Popish Manuscript on this point.
Just as I was writing this, I received another Popish M. S. sent from Wolverhampton to Stourbridge, to which I shall return an answer before I go to the next point.
Just as I was writing this, I received another Popish M. S. sent from Wolverhampton to Sturbridge, to which I shall return an answer before I go to the next point.
Pap. M. S. An Argument for the Church. IT will not be denied but that the Church of Rome was once a most pure, excellent, flourishing and Mother Church; and her faith renowned in the whole world, Rom. 1. 8. & 6. & 16. ⟨p. 245⟩Whites Def. p. 555. King James speech to the Parliament. Whitaker in his Answer to Dr. Sanders. Fulk. cap. 21. Thes. 7. Reynolds in his fifth Conclusion. This Church could not cease to be such, but she must fall either by Apostasy, Heresy, or Schism. Apostasy is not only a renouncing of the faith of Christ; but of the name and Title of Christianity. No man will say that the Church of Rome had such a fall, or fell so. Heresy is an adhesion or fast cleaving to some private or singular Opinion, or error in faith, contrary to the generally approved doctrine of the Church. If the Church of Rome did ever adhere to any singular or new opinion, disagreeable to the common received doctrine of the Christian world, I pray you satisfy me in these particulars. 1. By what General Council was she ever condemned? 2. Which of the Fathers ever writ against her? 3. By what Authority was she otherwise reproved? For it seems to be a thing very incongruous, that so great a Church should be condemned by every private person, who hath a mind to condemn her. Schism is a departure or division from the unity of the Church, whereby the bond and Communion held with some former Church is broken and dissolved. If ever the Church of Rome divided her self from any body of faithful Christians, or broke Communion, or went forth from the Society of any Elder Church, I pray you satisfy me in these particulars. 1. Whose company did she leave? 2. From what body went she forth? 3. Where was the true Church she forsook? For it appears not a little strange, that a Church should be accounted Schismatical, when there cannot be assigned any other Church different from her (which from age to age since Christs time hath continued visible) from whence she departed.]