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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.
Of old, men were taught to make daily confession of sin, and beg pardon, and when they had done all, to confess themselves unprofitable servants: but now they are so changed, that they pretend not only to be perfect without sin, and to Merit by the Condignity of their works with God, but to supererogate and be more perfect then innocency could make them, by doing more then their duty.
Of old those things were accounted sins deserving Hell, and needing the blood of Christ for pardon, which now are changed into venial sins, which properly are no sins, and deserve no more then temporal punishment.
Of old the Saints had no proper merits to plead for themselves; and now men have some to spare for the buying of souls out of Purgatory.
Of old the Pastors of the Churches were subject to the Rulers of the Commonwealth; even every soul, not only for wrath, but for Conscience sake was obliged to be subject: but now all the Clergy are exempted from secular Judgement, and yet the secular power is subject to them: for the Pope hath power to depose Princes, and dispossess them of their Dominions, and put others in their rooms, and dissolve the bonds of Oaths and Covenants, in which the subjects were obliged to them, and to allow men to murder them by stabbing, poisoning, &c. If you do not believe me, stay but till I come to it, and I shall give you yet some further proof.