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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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As for the King himself that was their Head, if any conjecture that he was a flat Papist, as I have heard many rashly say, I think there is much evidence to confute them. 1. That very Letter to the Pope (forementioned) on which the suspicion is most grounded, if you mark it exactly, doth intimate no more then a desire of a union and Reconciliation, with some additions that may bear a tolerable sense. 2. His own Profession of the Protestant Religion is sufficient evidence. 3. His Disputation with the Marquess of Worcester cleareth it. 4. His speech at death, and Papers since published clear it more. So that I think we may be confident that he was no nearer to Rome then was the reconcilable part of the Greeks: and that he desired no more then Bishop Bromhal, and other of his Bishops offer them, to have the Church governed by Patriarchs, and the Pope to be Principium Unitatis, &c. If any would know what Party Grotius was of, I desire them carefully to peruse but these places in his writings (which I have cited elsewhere) Discus. Apolog. Rivet. pag. 255. & pag. 7. & vot. pro Pace, pag. 1, 2, 3. And of his friends in England among the Bishops in Paris and all France, in Germany and Poland. See Discus. Apol. Rivet. pag. 16. and my Discovery of Grotius Religion.
As for the King himself that was their Head, if any conjecture that he was a flat Papist, as I have heard many rashly say, I think there is much evidence to confute them. 1. That very Letter to the Pope (forementioned) on which the suspicion is most grounded, if you mark it exactly, doth intimate no more then a desire of a union and Reconciliation, with some additions that may bear a tolerable sence. 2. His own Profession of the Protestant Religion is sufficient evidence. 3. His Disputation with the Marquess of Worcester cleareth it. 4. His speech at death, and Papers since published clear it more. So that I think we may be confident that he was no nearer to Rome then was the reconcilable part of the Greeks: and that he desired no more then Bishop Bromhal, and other of his Bishops offer them, to have the Church governed by Patriarcks, and the Pope to be Principium Unitatis, &c. If any would know what Party Grotius was of, I desire them carefully to peruse but these places in his writings (which I have cited elsewhere) Discus. Apolog. Rivet. pag. 255. & pag. 7. & vot. pro Pace, pag. 1, 2, 3. And of his friends in England among the Bishops in Paris and all France, in Germany and Poland. See Discus. Apol. Rivet. pag. 16. and my Discovery of Grotius Religion.