A26947:949
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 thus I have showed you what is the schism of the Church of Rome, which being but a part, hath attempted to cut off all the rest, and so hath made a new pretended Catholic Church: As a part of the Old Church which consisteth of all Christians united in Christ, we confess all those of you, still to be a part, that destroy not this Christianity: But as you are new gathered to a Christ-Representative, or Vicar General, we deny you to be any Church of Christ. If you be Church members or saved, it must be as Christians; but never as Papists. For a Papist may be a Christian, but not as a Papist.
And thus I have shewed you what is the schism of the Church of Rome, which being but a part, hath attempted to cut off all the rest, and so hath made a new pretended Catholick Church: As a part of the Old Church which consisteth of all Christians united in Christ, we confess all those of you, still to be a part, that destroy not this Christianity: But as you are new gathered to a Christ-Representative, or Vicar General, we deny you to be any Church of Christ. If you be Church members or saved, it must be as Christians; but never as Papists. For a Papist may be a Christian, but not as a Papist.
And if yet you cannot see the Church that you separate from, open your eyes and look into much of Europe, and all over Asia almost where are any Christians: look into Armenia, Palestine, Egypt, Ethiopia, and many other Countries, and you shall find that you are but a smaller part of the Church. If you will not believe what I have before proved of this, hear what your own say. Anton. Marinarins in the Council of Trent complaineth [that the Church is shut up in the Corners of Europe, and yet Domestic enemies arise, that waste this portion shut up in a corner.]
And if yet you cannot see the Church that you separate from, open your eyes and look into much of Europe, and all over Asia almost where are any Christians: look into Armenia, Palestine, Egypt, Ethiopia, and many other Countries, and you shall find that you are but a smaller part of the Church. If you will not believe what I have before proved of this, hear what your own say. Anton. Marinarins in the Council of Trent complaineth [that the Church is shut up in the Corners of Europe, and yet Domestick enemies arise, that waste this portion shut up in a corner.]