A26947:1460
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
Quest. Whether the way to heal any Divisions in the Churches of Chr… › Chapter 3
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4. And they must many of them pass through the Countries of other Princes, that are Infidels, and oft in war with the parts which they come from or go to. And it cannot be expected that in such cases they should allow them passage through their Countries. If one do, all will not: When poor Lithgow had travailed nineteen years, he was tortured, strappadoed and disjointed, ⟨p. 412⟩and made a cripple at Malaga in the Spanish Inquisition. And thanked God and the English Ambassador that he sped so well.
4. And they must many of them pass through the Countries of other Princes, that are Infidels, and oft in war with the parts which they come from or go to. And it cannot be expected that in such cases they should allow them passage through their Countries. If one do, all will not: When poor Lithgow had travailed nineteen years, he was tortured, strappado'd and disjoynted, ⟨p. 412⟩and made a cripple at Malaga in the Spanish Inquisition. And thanked God and the English Embassador that he sped so well.
5. Even at home in Europe, the Princes are so commonly in Wars (as are France, Spain, Venice, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, the Emperor, Brandenburg, Holland, Portugal, England, Transylvania, &c. at this very day) that there is not the least probability that they should all or half consent to have so many of their subjects pass into their enemies Countries to reside so long. Jealousies raised by particular Interests would make it Treason.
5. Even at home in Europe, the Princes are so commonly in Wars (as are France, Spain, Venice, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, the Emperor, Brandenburgh, Holland, Portugal, England, Transylvania, &c. at this very day) that there is not the least probability that they should all or half consent to have so many of their subjects pass into their enemies Countries to reside so long. Jealousies raised by particular Interests would make it Treason.