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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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For example, The Pope hath made it an Article of faith, that no Scripture is to be interpreted but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers. This we reject, and make it no Article of our faith, but an erroneous Novelty. Do we hereby make a new Article? because we reject a new one of theirs, (yea a part of the Oath of their Church made by Pope Pius after the Council of Trent) 1. If this be an Article, prove it ⟨p. 260⟩if you can. 2. If it be a Truth, and no Novelty, I pray you tell us which be Fathers, and which not? and help us to know certainly when we have all, or the unanimous Consent. And then tell us whether every man is not forsworn with you that interprets any text of Scripture before he have read all the Fathers. or any text which six of them never expounded; or any text which they do not unanimously agree on? And yet (though it be not our necessary task) we can easily prove to you, that this is a New Article of your devising. 1. Because else no man must expound any Scripture at all before these Fathers were born. For how could the Church before them have their unanimous consent? And 2. Because that otherwise these Fathers themselves wanted an Article of faith, unless it was an Article to them, that they must expound no Scripture but by their own Consent. 3. Because these Fathers do few of them expound all, or half, or the twentieth part of the Scripture. 4. Because they took liberty to disagree among themselves, and therefore do not unanimously consent in abundance of particular texts. 5. Because they tell us that they are fallible, and bid us not take it on their trust. 6. Because the Apostles have left us no such rule or precept, but much to the contrary. 7. Your own Doctors (for all their Oath) do commonly charge the Fathers with error and misexpounding Scripture, as I showed before, Canus and many others charge Cajetan (a Cardinal and pillar in your Church) with making it his practise to differ from the Fathers, and choosing expositions purposely for the Novelty; pro more suo, as his custom: And when he hath highly extolled Cajetan: (Loc. Theol. lib. 7. pag. 223.)
For example, The Pope hath made it an Article of faith, that no Scripture is to be interpreted but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers. This wereject, and make it no Article of our faith, but an erroneous Novelty. Do we hereby make a new Article? because we reject a new one of theirs, (yea a part of the Oath of their Church made by Pope Pius after the Council of Trent) 1. If this be an Article, prove it