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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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Dètect. 29. Another of their Deceits, and I think the most successful of all the rest is, Their suiting their Doctrines, and Government and Worship to the fleshly humours of the ungodly: by which means the Greatest and the Most are always like to be on their side: When on the contrary our Doctrine, Discipline and worship is all so contrary to carnal interest and conceits, that we are still like to lose the most, if not the greatest, and consequently to be a persecuted people in the world. This is their unanswerable Argument: By this means they captivate the Nations to their Tyranny. The Most are every where almost licentious, sensual, worldly and unsanctified: Wise men and Godly men are few in comparison of the rest of the world. And it is the multitude commonly that hath the strength, and the Great ones that have the wealth. So that I confess I take it for a wonder of mercy, that they are not Lords in every Country, and that the Reformed Catholics be not used every where as they be in Spain and Italy. For where they have but opportunity to show themselves, the Principles and Practises of the Papists ⟨p. 272⟩are such, as will be most likely to win the Rabble rout to them, and make them Masters of the multitude, and of all except a few believing Heavenly persons: (For the flock is little that must have the Kingdom.) And then, when they have got the multitude thus to follow them, and clubbed the rest into prisons, or burned them in the flames, they reckon of this as one of the surest Evidences that they are the Catholic Church, because forsooth they are the greater number (in the Countries where they have advantage,) and it is but a few whom they were able to persecute or burn as Heretics that were against them. The very Argument of the Jews against Christ and his Disciples.
Dètect. 29. ANother of their Deceits, and I think the most successfull of all the rest is, Their suting their Doctrines, and Government and Worship to the fleshly humours of the ungodly: by which means the Greatest and the Most are alwayes like to be on their side: When on the contrary our Doctrine, Discipline and worship is all so contrary to carnal interest and conceits, that we are still like to lose the most, if not the greatest, and consequently to be a persecuted people in the world. This is their unanswerable Argument: By this means they captivate the Nations to their Tyranny. The Most are every where almost licentious, sensual, worldly and unsanctified: Wise men and Godly men are few in comparison of the rest of the world. And it is the multitude commonly that hath the strength, and the Great ones that have the wealth. So that I confess I take it for a wonder of mercy, that they are not Lords in every Countrey, and that the Reformed Catholicks be not used every where as they be in Spain and Italy. For where they have but opportunity to shew themselves, the Principles and Practises of the Papists