A26947:1175
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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He will remember that he was ⟨p. 318⟩helped by us, and look on the Protestants and Puritans as Rebels, and take his next advantage against them, or at least be at a greater distance from them then before: For such a war will never out of his mind, nor will he think himself safe till he hath disabled them from doing the like again. But if one part conquer it will be the King, or the Puritans (for so the Protestants must now be called) If the King prevail, then will the Puritans be totally trod down, and we by whose help the victory was got, shall certainly be incomparably better then we are, if not have presently all our will. For our fidelity will be predicated: the Rebels will be odious: So that their very names will be a scorn, and there will be no great resistance of us (For saith Mr. Middleton in his Letter to the A. B. of Canterb. in Prins Introduct. p. 142, 143. The Jesuit (at Florence, lately returned from England, who pretends to have made a strict discovery of the state of England as it stands for Religion) saith, that the Puritans are shrewd fellows, but those which are counted good Protestants are fair conditioned honest men, and think they may be saved in any Religion.) But if the Puritans get the day (which is a most unlikely thing) yet shall we make great advantage of it; For 1. They will be unsettled and all in pieces, and not know how to settle the Government: And saith the Jesuits Letter, found in the A. B. of Cant. Study in Prins Introduct. pag. 89, 90. [Our foundation must be Mutation: this will cause a Relaxation; which serves as so many violent diseases, as the Stone, Gout, &c. to the speedy destruction, &c.] 2. We shall necessitate the Puritan Protestants to keep the King as a Prisoner, or else to put him to death; If they keep him as a Prisoner, his diligence, and friends, and their own divisions, will either work his deliverance, and give him the day again by our help, or at least will keep the State in a continual unsettledness, and will be an Odium on them. If they cut him off (which we will rather promote, lest they should make use of his extremities to any advantage) then 1. We shall procure the Odium of King-killing to fall upon them, which they are wont to cast upon us and so shall be able to disburden our selves. 2. And we shall have them all to pieces in distractions. For 3.
He will remember that he was ⟨p. 318⟩helpt by us, and look on the Protestants and Puritans as Rebels, and take his next advantage against them, or at least be at a greater distance from them then before: For such a war will never out of his mind, nor will he think himself safe till he hath disabled them from doing the like again. But if one part conquer it will be the King, or the Puritans (for so the Protestants must now be caled) If the King prevail, then will the Puritans be totally trod down, and we by whose help the victory was got, shall certainly be incomparably better then we are, if not have presently all our will. For our fidelity will be predicated: the Rebells will be odious: So that their very names will be a scorn, and there will be no great resistance of us (For saith Mr. Middleton in his Letter to the A. B. of Canterb. in Prins Introduct. p. 142, 143. The Jesuite (at Florence, lately returned from England, who pretends to have made a strict discovery of the state of England as it stands for Religion) saith, that the Puritans are shrewd fellows, but those which are counted good Protestants are fair conditioned honest men, and think they may be saved in any Religion.) But if the Puritans get the day (which is a most unlikely thing) yet shall we make great advantage of it; For 1. They will be unsettled and all in pieces, and not know how to settle the Government: And saith the Jesuites Letter, found in the A. B. of Cant. Study in Prins Introduct. pag. 89, 90. [Our foundation must be Mutation: this will cause a Relaxation; which serves as so many violent diseases, as the Stone, Gout, &c. to the speedy destruction, &c.] 2. We shall necessitate the Puritan Protestants to keep the King as a Prisoner, or else to put him to death; If they keep him as a Prisoner, his diligence, and friends, and their own divisions, will either work his deliverance, and give him the day again by our help, or at least will keep the State in a continual unsettledness, and will be an Odium on them. If they cut him off (which we will rather promote, lest they should make use of his extremities to any advantage) then 1. We shall procure the Odium of King-killing to fall upon them, which they are wont to cast upon us and so shall be able to disburden our selves. 2. And we shall have them all to pieces in distractions. For 3.