A26947:1325
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.
Where note, 1. That it is an Universal Liberty only that we move for, or at least on equal terms. It is not that the Papists may have Liberty in England, and we have none in Spain and other Countries. The Author of the Image of both Churches maketh a long and subtle persuasive for Liberty of Conscience: But where would he have it? Let them take this equal motion, and yield to it if they dare. Let the Protestants have liberty in Italy, Spain, Flanders, Portugal, Austria, Bavaria, &c. and we shall consent that the Papists have as much Liberty in England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, &c. But it must in reason be on equal terms. Yet this advantage we know they have, that their Agents and Missionaries are incomparably more numerous then ours, by reason of the multitude of their Friars, Jesuits, &c. and their doctrines are more suitable to corrupted nature, and carnal interest, and the people are more engaged by worldly obligations to their ways: And yet we are so confident of the Power of Truth, that I would this Proposal were accepted. The Bible it self without any Preachers, would shrewdly shake the Kingdom of the Pope, where men have liberty to use it.
Where note, 1. That it is an Universal Liberty only that we move for, or at least on equal terms. It is not that the Papists may have Liberty in England, and we have none in Spain and other Countries. The Author of the Image of both Churches maketh a long and subtile perswasive for Liberty of Conscience: But where would he have it? Let them take this equal motion, and yield to it if they dare. Let the Protestants have liberty in Italy, Spain, Flanders, Portugal, Austria, Bavaria, &c. and we shall consent that the Papists have as much Liberty in England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, &c. But it must in reason be on equal terms. Yet this advantage we know they have, that their Agents and Missionaries are incomparably more numerous then ours, by reason of the multitude of their Fryars, Jesuites, &c. and their doctrines are more suitable to corrupted nature, and carnal interest, and the people are more engaged by worldly obligations to their ways: And yet we are so confident of the Power of Truth, that I would this Proposal were accepted. The Bible it self without any Preachers, would shrewdly shake the Kingdom of the Pope, where men have liberty to use it.