A26947:1256
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.
CHAP. XLVIII.
Detect. 39. THE last of their Practical frauds (at home) and the most desperate is, Their Treasons against the lives of Princes, and the Peace of Nations, and their dissolving the bonds of Oaths and Covenants, and making Perjury and Rebellion to seem to be Duties and Meritorious works.
It would be a voluminous task to relate the Histories of the Papal Treasons: How the Roman Vice-christ having laid a claim to both Swords, Spiritual and Temporal, hath plaid the Traitor against the Greek Emperors, dispossessing them of the West; and against the Emperors of Germany, stirring up their own subjects, and the Christian Princes and States against them; setting his foot on the neck of one, and making another wait barefoot long at the Roman gates; and keeping many of them in wars. It was this Horrid Treason and Tyrannical usurpation over all the Christians Princes, that caused all those Treatises on that subject wrote against him, in the Defence of Princes and their ⟨p. 349⟩Right, which Mich. Goldastus hath preserves and conjoined in divers Volumes. It was this that caused England, Denmark, Sweden, and so many other Princes, to be the readier to shake off his yoke. Kings are not Kings where the Pope is fully Pope; except only the House of Austria, whom he is forced to gratify, as the only prop of all his tyranny. France that hath so much stood for its Liberties, hath felt the fruits of the Roman Principles, and League; and two of their most renowned Kings successively have been basely and inhumanely butchered by them: And to this day the numerous swarm of the Popes dependant Clergy, doth not only devour, as is thought, about a third part of the Lands, but also awes and sways the Princes. Even in Ireland before our wars, a Bishop (Bedle in his Letter to Laud in Prins Introduct. pag. 102.) doth open the Power of the Clergy, and their insolencies as such, that he concludes [His Majesty is now with the greatest part of this Country as to their hearts and consciences, King, but at the Popes discretion] And in another Letter to the said Archbishop (ibid. pag. 112.) he saith [I that know that in this Kingdom of his Majesty, the Pope hath another Kingdom far greater in number, and as I have heretofore signified to the Lords Justices, and Council (which since is justified by themselves in print) constantly guided and directed by the order of the new Congregation, de propaganda fide, lately erected at Rome—] see the rest.