A26947:695
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.
(She knew who was admired in Heaven before she could be let in:) that at Thecla's prayers she was admitted into heaven; (but tells us not where she was before:) that when Thecla was again tied to wild bulls, and fire set to their posteriors to enrage them, the fire killed them, and burnt the bonds, and she was unhurt. That Thecla again puts on mans clothes, and seeks Paul; (whether she wore breeches I find not;) that ⟨p. 180⟩Paul hereupon pronounceth her an Apostle (a predecessor of Pope Joan) and ordaineth her to go and preach the Gospel: and appointeth her to one Pagan City (as if either women were Apostles, or ordained to be preachers of the Gospel, that by Paul were forbidden to speak in the Church: or Apostles were confined to a City:) that she fixed at Seleucia, and there converted and baptized many, and at last (after many miracles) did not die, but entered alive into the earth, which opened it self for her in the place where the holy Table stood; that after her death she wrought those one and thirty miracles that fill a second Book, and many more; appearing to this Basil, and encouraging him when he was weary, to go on in the writing of her praises, and plucking him by the ear, and so curing his headache, which else would have prevented his Oration in her praise the next day, with abundance more that are more strange then this.
(She knew who was admired in Heaven before she could be let in:) that at Thecla's prayers she was admitted into heaven; (but tells us not where she was before:) that when Thecla was again tied to wild bulls, and fire set to their posteriors to enrage them, the fire killed them, and burnt the bonds, and she was unhurt. That Thecla again puts on mans cloaths, and seeks Paul; (whether she wore breeches I find not;) that ⟨p. 180⟩Paul hereupon pronounceth her an Apostle (a predecessor of Pope Joan) and ordaineth her to go and preach the Gospel: and appointeth her to one Pagan City (as if either women were Apostles, or ordained to be preachers of the Gospel, that by Paul were forbidden to speak in the Church: or Apostles were confined to a City:) that she fixed at Seleucia, and there converted and baptized many, and at last (after many miracles) did not die, but entred alive into the earth, which opened it self for her in the place where the holy Table stood; that after her death she wrought those one and thirty miracles that fill a second Book, and many more; appearing to this Basil, and encouraging him when he was weary, to go on in the writing of her praises, and plucking him by the ear, and so curing his headach, which else would have prevented his Oration in her praise the next day, with abundance more that are more strange then this.