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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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3. And beside both these, our Religion was professed with a yet greater Rejection of Romish corruptions, by thousands, and many thousands that lived in the Western Church it self, and under the Popes nose, and opposed him in many of his ill endeavours against the Church and truth, together with them that gave him the hearing, and were glad to be quiet, and gave way to his tyranny, but never consented to it.
Concerning these we have abundant evidence, though abundance more we might have had, if the power and subtlety of the Papal faction had not had the handling of them. 1. We have abundance of Histories that tell us of the bloody wars and contentions that the Emperors both of East and West have had with the Pope to hinder his tyranny; and that they were forced by his power to submit to him, contrary to their former free professions. 2. And we have abundance of Treatises then written against him, both for the Emperors and Princes, and against his doctrine and tyranny: some store of them Goldastus hath gathered: And intimations of more you have ⟨p. 123⟩in their own expurgatory Indices. 3. And we have the histories and professions of the Albigenses, Waldenses, Bohemians and others that were very numerous, and if Raynerius say true, they affirmed (about the year one thousand one hundred) that they had continued since the Apostles, and no other Original of them is proved. 4. Particular evidence unanswerable is given in by Bishop Usher de Succes. & statu Eccl. and Answer to the Jesuits, and the Ancient Religion of Ireland, and in Dr. Field, and Morneyes Mystery of Iniquity, and of the Church, and Illyricus, and many others. 5. Even General Popish Councils have contended and born witness against the Popes superiority over a Council. 6. And in that and other points whole Countries of their own are not yet brought over to the Pope. 7. They have still among themselves Dominicans, Jansenists, &c. that are reproached by the Jesuits as siding with Calvin in many Controversies, as Catharinus and many more in others. Most points of ours which we oppose to Popery, being maintained by some or other of them. 8. But the fullest evidence is the certain history or knowledge of of the case of the common people and Clergy among them, who are partly ignorant of the main matters in Controversies between us (as we see by experience of multitudes for one, to this day) and are generally kept under the fear of fire, and sword, and torments; so that the truth of the Case is this: