A26947:912
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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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?
And now I pray consider to what purpose is the rest of your reasoning? What is it to me, whether Rome be turned either Apostate, Heretical, or Schismatical, any more then whether Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, or any other Church be so fallen? If you are not fallen I am glad of it; if you are I am sorry for it; and so I have done with you (unless I knew how to recover you.) Would you not laugh even at the Church of Jerusalem that was truly the Mother Church of the world, if they should thus reason [We are not fallen away: therefore we must Rule over all the world, and no man is a Christian that doth not obey us?] This is the sport you make in the cheating of souls.
And now I pray consider to what purpose is the rest of your reasoning? What is it to me, whether Rome be turned either Apostate, Heretical, or Schismatical, any more then whether Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, or any other Church be so faln? If you are not faln I am glad of it; if you are I am sorry for it; and so I have done with you (unless I knew how to recover you.) Would you not laugh even at the Church of Jerusalem that was truly the Mother Church of the world, if they should thus reason [We are not faln away: therefore we must Rule over all the world, and no man is a Christian that doth not obey us?] This is the sport you make in the cheating of souls.