A26947:156
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
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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?
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, poysoning 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?
And Genebrard that spleenish Papist (li. 4. Sec. 10.) saith [In this one thing that age was unhappy, that for near one hundred and fifty years about fifty Popes did wholly fall away from the virtue ⟨p. 25⟩