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…

1. When you come to dispute of the Church with them, see that you agree first under your hands of the Definition of that Church of which you dispute. And when you call them to Define it, you will find them in a wood, you will little think how many several things it is that they call [the Church:] For example, sometime they mean the whole Body, Pastors and People: but more commonly they mean only the Pastors, which are the far smallest part. And sometime they mean the Church Real: and sometimes only the Church Representative, as they call it in a General Council. But whether they mean the Pastors or People, they exclude all saving the Pope of his subjects, and so by the [Church] mean but a part or sect. Sometime in the Question ⟨p. 74⟩about Tradition, some of the French take the [Church] for the community, (as fathers deliver the doctrine of Christ to their children, &c.) And sometime they take it in its Political sense, for a holy society, consisting of a visible Head and members: But then they agree not of that Head, some setting the Pope highest, and some the Council. But frequently they take the word [Church] for the supposed Head alone, as in most questions about Infallibility, Judging of Controversies, expounding Scripture, keeping of Traditions, defining points of faith, &c. They say, The Church must do these: but commonly they mean the supposed Head: And one part mean a General Council: and the Jesuits and Italians, and predominant part do mean only the Pope: so that when they talk of the whole Catholic Church, and call you to its Judgement, and boast of its Infallibility (you would little think it) they mean all this while but one poor sinful man: and such a man as sometime hath been more unlearned then many of your school boys of twelve or fourteen years of age; and sometime hath been a Murderer, Adulterer, and (if General Councils, or the common vote may be believed) an Heretic, an Infidel, an Incarnate Devil. This man is their Church, as Gretser, Bellarmine, and the rest of that strain profess.

1. When you come to dispute of the Church with them, see that you agree first under your hands of the Definition of that Church of which you dispute. And when you call them to Define it, you will find them in a wood, you will little think how many severall things it is that they call [the Church:] For example, sometime they mean the whole Body, Pastors and People: but more commonly they mean only the Pastors, which are the far smallest part. And sometime they mean the Church Reall: and sometimes only the Church Representative, as they call it in a Generall Councill. But whether they mean the Pastors or People, they exclude all saving the Pope of his subjects, and so by the [Church] mean but a part or sect. Sometime in the Question