A26947:1230
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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3. Another most effectual way of Hiding themselves is, by Equivocation or mental reservations, which we use to call Lying, when they are examined about their Religion, their Orders or their actions. Lying that hurteth not another, they commonly maintain to be but a venial sin, which say most of them, is properly no sin at all. And to equivocate or reserve one half of your answer to your selves, say the Jesuits, is not Lying, nor unlawful, in case a mans interest requireth him to do it. See the words of their own Casuists cited for this by Montaltus the Jansenist. Were it a thing that needed proof, I would give you enough of it. Thom. à Jesus the Carmelite, ubi sup. Dub. 4. pag. 218. secureth them sufficiently: His Question is [Whether one that denieth it when he is asked of a Heretic whether he be a Priest, or a Religious man, or whether he heard Divine service, do sin against the confession of faith?] He answereth, [No: for that is no denying himself to be a Christian, or Catholic: For it is lawful to dissemble or hide the person of a Clergy man or a Religious man, without a lye in words, lest a man be betrayed and in danger of his life; and for the same cause he may lay by his Habit, omit prayers, &c.—because (N. B.) humane Laws for the most part bind not the subjects conscience, when there is great hazard of life, as in this case Azorius hath well taught. Just. Mor. Tom. 1. lib. 8. c. 27.] So that by the consent of most, there is no danger to a Papist in any such case from his own confession.
3. Another most effectual way of Hiding themselves is, by Equivocation or mental reservations, which we use to call Lying, when they are examined about their Religion, their Orders or their actions. Lying that hurteth not another, they commonly maintain to be but a venial sin, which say most of them, is properly no sin at all. And to equivocate or reserve one half of your answer to your selves, say the Jesuites, is not Lying, nor unlawfull, in case a mans interest requireth him to do it. See the words of their own Casuists cited for this by Montaltus the Jansenist. Were it a thing that needed proof, I would give you enough of it. Thom. à Jesu the Carmelite, ubi sup. Dub. 4. pag. 218. secureth them sufficiently: His Question is [Whether one that denyeth it when he is asked of a Heretick whether he be a Priest, or a Religious man, or whether he heard Divine service, do sin against the confession of faith?] He answereth, [No: for that is no denying himself to be a Christian, or Catholick: For it is lawfull to dissemble or hide the person of a Clergy man or a Religious man, without a lye in words, lest a man be betrayed and in danger of his life; and for the same cause he may lay by his Habit, omit prayers, &c.—because (N. B.) humane Laws for the most part bind not the subjects conscience, when there is great hazard of life, as in this case Azorius hath well taught. Just. Mor. Tom. 1. lib. 8. c. 27.] So that by the consent of most, there is no danger to a Papist in any such case from his own confession.