A26947:1168
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
You see here, if their own pens are to be credited, those very Actions of the Swedes, Germans, French, which they cast as a reproach in the face of the Protestant; (as you may see in a Book called The Image of the two Churches) were indeed their own, and to be laid at their own doors. I omit abundance of better proof, because I will give them the words of none but themselves in this.
How far they were the causes of the old broils in Scotland, Knox, and Spotswood, and all their later Histories will tell you.
How busy they were in England in Queen Elizabeths days, the Popes Bulls, and the many Treacheries committed signify. Even in King James his days, who wrote against them, they so far prevailed, as to cause him to swear to those Articles for Toleration of Popery, in order to the Spanish Match, which you may read in Prins Introduct. pag. 44, 45. Yea so far as to prevail with King James before the Lords of his Council to say, that [His Mother suffered Martyrdom in this Realm for the profession of the Catholic Religion; a Religion which had been publicly professed for many ages in this Realm, confirmed by many great and excellent Emperors, and famous in all Ecclesiastical Histories, by an infinite number of Martyrs, who had sealed it with their blood: that the Catholics well knew that there was in him a grand affection to the Catholic Religion in so much that they believed at Rome that he did but dissemble his Religion to obtain the Crown of England: That now he had maturely considered the penury and calamities of the Roman Catholics, who were in the number of his faithful subjects, and was resolved to relieve them; and therefore did from thenceforth take all his Roman ⟨p. 316⟩Catholic subjects into his protection, permitting them the liberty and entire exercise of their Religion, and liberty to celebrate the Mass with other Divine offices of their Religion without any inquisition, process or molestation from that day forwards.] And so he goes on restoring them to their estates, commanding all Officers to hold their hands, and for what cause so ever it be, not to attempt to grieve or molest the said Catholics neither in public or private in the liberty of the exercise of their Religion, upon pain of being reputed guilty of high Treason, &c.] Prin ubi sup. p. 30. & Mercur. Gal. To. 9. p. 485.