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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.
Pope John 13. alias 12. was in Council convicted of ravishing Maids, Wives, Widows at the Apostolic doors, and committing many murders: he drunk a health to the Devil, and at Dice called to Jupiter and Venus for help, and at last was slain in the act of Adultery. Saith Platina [he was from his youth a man contaminated with all dishonesty and filthiness; and if he had any time to spare from his lusts, he spent it in hunting, and not in praying.] And after he calls him [a most wicked man, or rather a Monster] and saith that [the life of this most wicked man being judged in a Council of Italian Bishops, for fear of them he fled and lived like a wild beast in the woods,] till at last he got the better again by the help of his friends at Rome; till an angry man that found him naught with his wife, got the better of him, and sent him to answer it in another world. And their own writers note that this was the first Pope that changed his name, whom his followers imitated. And do you think the Head of the Roman Church was then Holy?
Pope John 13. alias 12. was in Councill convicted of ravishing Maids, Wives, Widows at the Apostolick doors, and committing many murders: he drunk a health to the Devil, and at Dice caled to Jupiter and Venus for help, and at last was slain in the act of Adultery. Saith Plutina [he was from his youth a man contaminated with all dishonesty and filthiness; and if he had any time to spare from his lusts, he spent it in hunting, and not in praying.] And after he calls him [a most wicked man, or rather a Menster] and saith that [the life of this most wicked man being judged in a Council of Italian Bishops, for fear of them he fled and lived like a wild beast in the woods,] till at last he got the better again by the help of his friends at Rome; till an angry man that found him naught with his wife, got the better of him, and sent him to answer it in another world. And their own writers note that this was the first Pope that changed his name, whom his followers imitated. And do you think the Head of the Roman Church was then Holy?
If it were a disputable matter, I would prove out of abundance of their own writers, that many others of them have been most wicked wretches, common adulterers, and fornicators, yea Sodomites, poisoning their predecessors to get the Popedom &c. But its needless, because they deny it not. Baronius their flattering Champion saith (Annal ad an. 912.) What then was the face of the holy Roman Church? How exceeding filthy, when the most potent, and yet the most sordid whores did rule at Rome? by whose Pleasure Sees were changed, Bishops were given, and which is a thing horrid to be heard, and not to be spoken, their Lovers (or mates) were thrust into Peters Chair, being false Popes, who are not to be written in the Catalogue of the Roman Popes, but only for the marking out of such times. And what kind of Cardinals, Priests, and Deacons think you we must imagine that these monsters did choose, when nothing is so rooted in nature as for every one to beget his like?