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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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3. As to the third and fourth senses, we deny, as confidently as we do that the Sun is darkness, that ever in Scripture times Rome was either a Mother to all Churches, or the Ruler and Mistress of all, or yet the Universal Church it self. Prove this, and I will turn Papist.
3. As to the third and fourth senses, we deny, as confidently as we do that the Sun is darkness, that ever in Scipture times Rome was either a Mother to all Churches, or the Ruler and Mistris of all, or yet the Universal Church it self. Prove this, and I will turn Papist.
But there's not a word for it in the Texts cited, but an intimation of much against it. Paul calleth Rome a Church, and commendeth its faith. True, but doth he not so by the Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, &c. and John by the Philadelphians, Pergamus, Thyatira and others, as well? And will ⟨p. 247⟩not this prove that Rome was but such a particular Church as one of them?
The citation of Protestants are done it seems by one that never read them, nor would have others read them; which makes him turn us to whole books to search for them, if we have nothing else to do, and to miscited places. But we know that all our Divines confess that Rome was once a true and famous particular Church, but never the Universal Church, nor the Ruler of the world, or of all other Churches, in Pauls days. Would you durst lay your cause on this, and put it to the trial? Why else did never Paul make one word of mention of this Power and honour, nor send other Churches to her to be Governed?
The citation of Protestants are done it seems by one that never read them, nor would have others read them; which makes him turn us to whole books to search for them, if we have nothing else to do, and to miscited places. But we know that all our Divines confess that Rome was once a true and famous particular Church, but never the Universall Church, nor the Ruler of the world, or of all other Churches, in Pauls dayes. Would you durst lay your cause on this, and put it to the tryal? Why else did never Paul make one word of mention of this Power and honour, nor send other Churches to her to be Governed?