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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
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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⟩of their ancestors, being rather irregular and Apostatical, then Apostolical] So that the Church of Rome had not then either a Holy or Apostolical Head.
And Genebrard that spleenish Papist (li. 4. Sec. 10.) saith [In this one thing that age was unhappy, that for neer one hundred and fifty years about fifty Popes did wholly fall away from the virtue ⟨p. 25⟩of their ancestors, being rather irregular and Apostatical, then Apostolical] So that the Church of Rome had not then either a Holy or Apostolical Head.
And Pope Adrian the sixth himself writeth (De Sacram. Confir. Art. 4.) that there have many Popes of Rome been Heretics. And two or three several General Councils did condemn Pope Honorius for an Heretic.
And Pope Adrian the sixth himself writeth (De Sacram. Confir. Art. 4.) that there have many Popes of Rome been Hereticks. And two or three several General Councils did condemn Pope Honorius for an Heretick.
And if I should tell you but what their own writers say of the wickedness of the Roman Clergy, in many ages; and of the wickedness of the Roman people, of the large sums of money that the Pope hath yearly for the licensed or tolerated Whorehouses in Rome, you would think that the body of the particular Roman Church were near kin to the Head, and therefore not the Holy Mistress of all Churches.