A26947:983
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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And page 118. he answereth from Scotus the Question, Whether such persons may hold the contrary error to the truth that they are ignorant of: and saith, No, (out of Scotus:) while it is preached but in some one place, till he know it to be believed as a truth by the Church, and then he must firmly adhere to it. Which the charitable Friar applieth to England as excusable for not believing some of their Articles. And he citeth Petigianis saying, [If a simple old woman shall hear a false opinion from a false Prophet, (as that the substance of the bread remains with Christs body in the Eucharist) and believe it: doth she sin because of this? No: This were too hard and cruel to affirm.]
And page 118. he answereth from Scotus the Question, Whether such persons may hold the contrary error to the truth that they are ignorant of: and saith, No, (out of Scotus:) while it is preached but in some one place, till he know it to be believed as a truth by the Church, and then he must firmly adhere to it. Which the charitable Fryar applieth to England as excusable for not believing some of their Articles. And he citeth Petigianis saying, [If a simple old woman shall hear a false opinion from a false Prophet, (as that the substance of the bread remains with Christs body in the Eucharist) and believe it: doth she sin because of this? No: This were too hard and cruell to affirm.]
Pag. 119. he citeth Angles, and agreeth with him, [that such as have no knowledge of these things to stir them up, are not bound so much as to seek information.]
And pag. 120. he cites Vega lib. 6. cap. 18. saying that as [Ignorance purae negationis about many Articles of faith, may be without fault: so there is the same reason of Ignorance pravae dispositionis.] Which he maintains against Gerson and Hugo. And S. Clara adds of his own [To speak my sense freely, I think that the common people committing themselves to the instruction