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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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And note for the understanding of all this, that this which they call an Implicit faith in Christ, is no actual faith in Christ at all. He that only believes as the Church believes, and knows not that the Church believes in Christ, in the Resurrection of Christ, &c. hath no actual belief in Christ or the Resurrection at all. Ignoti nulla fides: If I believe that one of you is true of his word, it doth not follow that I actually believe the particular propositions which I never heard. This which they call an implicit Belief, is nothing but the explicit actual belief of the Formal Object of Faith, Divine or Humane, as that God is True, or the Church True and infallible; but it is no belief at all of the particular material object.
And note for the understanding of all this, that this which they call an Implicite faith in Christ, is no actual faith in Christ at all. He that only believes as the Church believes, and knows not that the Church believes in Christ, in the Resurrection of Christ, &c. hath no actual belief in Christ or the Resurrection at all. Ignoti nulla fides: If I believe that one of you is true of his word, it doth not follow that I actually believe the particular propositions which I never heard. This which they call an implicite Belief, is nothing but the explicite actual belief of the Formal Object of Faith, Divine or Humane, as that God is True, or the Church True and infallible; but it is no belief at all of the particular material object.
And note that every one in the world that believeth that there is a God, must needs believe that he is no Liar; and so hath in God an Implicit belief. Now if this will save men, without a particular belief in Christ, then Christianity is not necessary: Every Turk, and Jew, and Infidel that believeth in God, may then be said to have an Implicit faith in Christ, in the Popish language; because he believeth all that God revealeth to be true; But if an Implicit faith in God will not serve, how should an implicit faith in the Church serve; unless the Church, that is the Pope, be better then God.
And note that every one in the world that believeth that there is a God, must needs believe that he is no Lyar; and so hath in God an Implicite belief. Now if this will save men, without a particular belief in Christ, then Christianity is not necessary: Every Turk, and Jew, and Infidel that believeth in God, may then be said to have an Implicite faith in Christ, in the Popish language; because he believeth all that God revealeth to be true; But if an Implicite faith in God will not serve, how should an implicite faith in the Church serve; unless the Church, that is the Pope, be better then God.