A26947:1210
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.
3. Another sort of the Hiders are those called Seekers, among whom I have reason to believe the Papists have not the least of their strength in England at this day. They practise the lesson that Boverius in Apparat. ad Consultat, taught Prince Charles long ago [Primum est, ut quoniam vera Religio tibi inquirenda est, antequam ad eam investigandam accedas, omnem prius Religionem apud te suspectam habeas: lubeatque tamdiu à Protestantium fide ac Religione animum ac voluntatem suspender, quamdiu in very inquisition versaris—] We must suspect all Religion it seems, and be first of no Religion, if we will become Papists. A fair beginning! We must then be unchristened, and suspect Christ and Scripture, that we may be espoused to the Pope. And this is the Papists work by the Seekers, to take us off from all, or from our former Religion, and blot out all the old impressions, that we may be capable of new. And if they can accomplish this, they have us at a fair advantage. For he that is not a ⟨p. 332⟩stark Atheist or Infidel, but believes that he hath a soul to save or lose, must needs know the Necessity of seeking his Salvation in some Religion or other: and therefore take him off from this, and you must needs bring him to some other: And he that could prevail to take him off his old Religion, is likeliest to have so much interest in him as may also prevail to bring him to another. And the Papist thinks that on the pretence of Unity, Antiquity and Universality (of which indeed they have but a delusory show) they can put as fair for him that is once indifferent as any other can.
3. Another sort of the Hiders are those called Seekers, among whom I have reason to believe the Papists have not the least of their strength in England at this day. They practise the lesson that Boverius in Apparat. ad Consultat, taught Prince Charls long ago [Primum est, ut quoniam vera Religio tibi inquirenda est, antequam ad eam investigandam accedas, omnem prius Religionem apud te suspectam habeas: lubeatque tamdiu à Protestantium fide ac Religione animum ac voluntatem suspendere, quamdiu in veri inquisitione versaris—] We must suspect all Religion it seems, and be first of no Religion, if we will become Papists. A fair begining! We must then be unchristned, and suspect Christ and Scripture, that we may be espoused to the Pope. And this is the Papists work by the Seekers, to take us off from all, or from our former Religion, and blot out all the old impressions, that we may be capable of new. And if they can accomplish this, they have us at a fair advantage. For he that is not a