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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
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.
and that wear the Visor of Seekers, Vanists, and other Sects, then that appear bare faced: Yea I believe that our danger of the open Papists is nothing in comparison of our danger from these Jugglers. And I confess I think an ingenuous open Papist should have a great deal more gentle dealing from our Magistrates, then these Deceivers that have such stretching Consciences. For my own part I must confess I feel a great deal of charity in my heart for a conscientious plain dealing Papist; and I would never be guilty of cruelty or rigour to them. But this juggling in the matters of God and Eternal life, my very soul abhors. I have been set upon by these Jugglers my self, and by some of the most renowned of them; but as soon as I perceived any of them purposely choose the dark, and hide themselves in affected cloudy terms or methods, I was more a verse from their documents, and took them for men that were either enemies to truth, or else had not received it into honest hearts themselves. Truth is most beautiful in its nakedness; It loveth plain dealing, and abhorreth ⟨p. 342⟩fraud. It takes that for its greatest friend, that lays it most naked to the view of all, and that for its enemy that purposely obscureth it. We have all such a natural inclination to truth, that he scarce deserves the name of a man, much less of a Christian, that would not embrace it if he knew it. Did I think that the Papists had the truth, the Lord knows I would run after them, and follow them till I had learned it: If ever any of them would work on me, they must come bare faced: for I naturally abhor a Juggler in Religion, and a friend of darkness.
and that wear the Vizard of Seekers, Vanists, and other Sects, then that appear bare faced: Yea I believe that our danger of the open Papists is nothing in comparison of our danger from these Juglers. And I confess I think an ingenuous open Papist should have a great deal more gentle dealing from our Magistrates, then these Deceivers that have such stretching Consciences. For my own part I must confess I feel a great deal of charity in my heart for a conscientious plain dealing Papist; and I would never be guilty of cruelty or rigor to them. But this jugling in the matters of God and Eternal life, my very soul abhors. I have been set upon by these Juglers my self, and by some of the most renowned of them; but as soon as I perceived any of them purposely choose the dark, and hide themselves in affected cloudy terms or methods, I was more a verse from their documents, and took them for men that were either enemies to truth, or else had not received it into honest hearts themselves. Truth is most beautifull in its nakedness; It loveth plain dealing, and abhorreth