A26947:913
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.
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.
Well; but let us follow you, though our cause be not concerned in it. 1. I answer, that we accuse you not of renouncing the name of Christ. 2. We must needs fear, that according to to your own definition of Heresy, you are guilty of many Heresies.
Well; but let us follow you, though our cause be not concerned in it. 1. I answer, that we accuse you not of renouncing the name of Christ. 2. We must needs fear, that according to to your own definition of Heresie, you are guilty of many Heresies.