A26947:968
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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4. And for our saying that they have the Kernel, and so much as is necessary to salvation, it is true; but it is the same Kernel that we hold: and we have it undefiled and unpoisoned, and the Papists mix it with the venom of their Errors. He that hath all things in his meat and drink that I have in mine, may yet make it worse then mine, if he will put dung or poison in it. When you have all things necessary in a precious Antidote or other Medicine, you may soon mar all, by putting in more then all, as the Papists do.
4. And for our saying that they have the Kernel, and so much as is necessary to salvation, it is true; but it is the same Kernel that we hold: and we have it undefiled and unpoysoned, and the Papists mix it with the venom of their Errors. He that hath all things in his meat and drink that I have in mine, may yet make it worse then mine, if he will put dung or poyson in it. When you have all things necessary in a precious Antidote or other Medicine, you may soon marr all, by putting in more then all, as the Papists do.
The plain truth is, the Papists and Reformed Catholics are both Christians, and Christianity is enough to save them that mar it not, but keep it practically and predominantly: even as a man that takes poison, and he that taketh none, are both of them men: and he that takes the poison may be said to have all the same parts and members as the other; and yet not be so likely to live, as he that lets it alone: And I cannot say but many that take it may recover: and if you ask me Which be they? I say, All those that timely cast it up again, or else whose strength of Nature prevaileth against it, and keepeth it from mastering the Heart or vital Powers, shall be recovered and live: but those in whom the poison prevaileth and is predominant, shall die. So all those Papists that so receive the Errors of Popery, as either to cast them up again; or that they are not predominant to the subduing of the power of Christian Faith and Holiness, (by keeping them from being sincere, and practical, and predominant) these shall be saved, but not the rest.
The plain truth is, the Papists and Reformed Catholicks are both Christians, and Christianity is enough to save them that mar it not, but keep it practically and predominantly: even as a man that takes poyson, and he that taketh none, are both of them men: and he that takes the poyson may be said to have all the same parts and members as the other; and yet not be so likely to live, as he that lets it alone: And I cannot say but many that take it may recover: and if you ask me Which be they? I say, All those that timely cast it up again, or else whose strength of Nature prevaileth against it, and keepeth it from mastering the Heart or vital Powers, shall be recovered and live: but those in whom the poyson prevaileth and is predominant, shall die. So all those Papists that so receive the Errors of Popery, as either to cast them up again; or that they are not predominant to the subduing of the power of Christian Faith and Holiness, (by keeping them from being sincere, and practical, and predominant) these shall be saved, but not the rest.