A26947:1205
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.
If you ask now what the Papists get by all this, I answer, you see in the Instance but of this one sect, and the products of it. 1. By this means our Councils, Armies, Churches have been divided, or much broken. 2. By this trick they have engaged the minds and tongues of many (and their hands if they had power) against the Ministry, which is the enemy that standeth in their way. 3. They have thus weakened us by the loss of our former adherents. 4. They have found a Nursery or Seminary for their own Opinions, which one half of the Anabaptists too greedily receive. 5. By this they have prepared them for more and worse. 6. By this means they get an Interest in our Armies, or weakened our own. 7. By this they have got Agents ready for mischievous designs (as hath been lately too manifest.) 8. By this they have cast a reproach upon our Profession, as if we had no unity or consistence, but were vertiginous for want of the Roman pillar to rest upon. 9. By this they have loosened and disaffected the common people, to see so many minds and ways, and hear so much contending, and have lost them from their former steadfastness, and made them ready for a new impression. 10. Yea by this means they have the opportunity ⟨p. 330⟩of Predicating their own pretended unity, and hereby have drawn many to their Church of late. All this have they got at this one game. What then have they got by all the rest?
If you ask now what the Papists get by all this, I answer, you see in the Instance but of this one sect, and the products of it. 1. By this means our Councils, Armies, Churches have been divided, or much broken. 2. By this trick they have engaged the minds and tongues of many (and their hands if they had power) against the Ministry, which is the enemy that standeth in their way. 3. They have thus weakned us by the loss of our former adherents. 4. They have found a Nursery or Seminary for their own Opinions, which one half of the Anabaptists too greedily receive. 5. By this they have prepared them for more and worse. 6. By this means they get an Interest in our Armies, or weakned our own. 7. By this they have got Agents ready for mischievous designs (as hath been lately too manifest.) 8. By this they have cast a reproach upon our Profession, as if we had no unity or consistence, but were vertiginous for want of the Roman pillar to rest upon. 9. By this they have loosned and disaffected the common people, to see so many minds and waies, and hear so much contending, and have loost them from their former stedfastness, and made them ready for a new impression. 10. Yea by this means they have the opportunity