A26947:1231
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.
Another way of Hiding their Religion and themselves, is by ⟨p. 340⟩false Oaths, which we called, wilful perjury, but the Jesuits take for a Lawful thing, when a mental Reservation or Equivocation supplieth the want of verbal truth, as their words cited by the forementioned Jansenian, testify. And who will ever want so easy, so obvious, so cheap a Remedy against all danger of perjury, as a mental Reservation is?
Another way of Hiding their Religion and themselves, is by ⟨p. 340⟩false Oaths, which we called, wilfull perjury, but the Jesuites take for a Lawfull thing, when a mentall Reservation or Equivocation supplyeth the want of verbal truth, as their words cited by the forementioned Jansenian, testifie. And who will ever want so easie, so obvious, so cheap a Remedy against all danger of perjury, as a mental Reservation is?
Yea that the Pope can sufficiently dispense with any of their Oaths of fidelity or Allegiance, or the like, I shall show you under the last Detection. The Parliament hath imposed on them an Oath of Abjuration, but do they not know how little the Clergy, and such as have their countenance will stick at that, such Nets are too wide to catch them in. Hear the words of one of their own Priests (Jo. Browns Voluntary Confess. in Prins Introduct. p. 203.) saith he, [Its strange to see the Stratagems which they use with their penitents concerning the Oath of Allegiance! If they be poor, they tell them flatly, (when they are demanded to take the Oath) that it is damnable, and no ways to be allowed by the Church: If they be of the richer sort, they say they may do as their conscience will inspire them. And there be some of them that make no conscience at all, to have it taken soft as they are demanded.] What would you have more, then such discoveries by themselves?
Yea that the Pope can sufficiently dispense with any of their Oaths of fidelity or Allegiance, or the like, I shall shew you under the last Detection. The Parliament hath imposed on them an Oath of Abjuration, but do they not know how little the Clergy, and such as have their countenance will stick at that, such Nets are too wide to catch them in. Hear the words of one of their own Priests (Io. Browns Voluntary Confess. in Prins Introduct. p. 203.) saith he, [Its strange to see the Stratagems which they use with their penitents concerning the Oath of Allegiance! If they be poor, they tell them flatly, (when they are demanded to take the Oath) that it is damnable, and no wayes to be allowed by the Church: If they be of the richer sort, they say they may do as their conscience will inspire them. And there be some of them that make no conscience at all, to have it taken sooft as they are demanded.] What would you have more, then such discoveries by themselves?