A26947:700
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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CHAP. XXVIII.
Detect. 19. Another of the Popish devices is, when they have laid their own cause upon so many forgeries, and uphold it by so many false reports, to make the people believe that it is we that are the liars, and that we are not to be believed in any thing that we say of them: and that we misreport the Fathers, belie the Roman Catholics, and therefore no man should read our Books, or discourse with us, so as to afford us any credence. So that indeed they get as much by mere persuading the people that we are Liars, as by any way that I know. We cannot tell them what is in their own Writers, but the ignorant people are commonly taught to say, we slander them. Though we cite the book, and page, and line, and tell them that they were printed at Rome, or Colen, or Antwerp, or Paris, by men of their own Profession, yet they believe us not, for they are instructed to hold us for liars, that we may be uncapable of doing them good. If we cite any of the Fathers, they tell us that we misallege them, or have corrupted them, or they say no such thing. If we show them the books published by their own Doctors, and licensed by their Superiors, and printed by Papists, yet they will not believe us. And so they are taught the easiest way in the world to repel the truth, and confute those that would do them good. It is no more but say, you lye, and all's done.
Detect. 19. ANother of the Popish devices is, when they have laid their own cause upon so many forgeries, and uphold it by so many false reports, to make the people believe that it is we that are the lyars, and that we are not to be believed in any thing that we say of them: and that we misreport the Fathers, belye the Roman Catholicks, and therefore no man should read our Books, or discourse with us, so as to afford us any credence. So that indeed they get as much by meer perswading the people that we are Lyars, as by any way that I know. We cannot tell them what is in their own Writers, but the ignorant people are commonly taught to say, we slander them. Though we cite the book, and page, and line, and tell them that they were printed at Rome, or Colen, or Antwerp, or Paris, by men of their own Profession, yet they believe us not, for they are instructed to hold us for lyars, that we may be uncapable of doing them good. If we cite any of the Fathers, they tell us that we misalledge them, or have corrupted them, or they say no such thing. If we shew them the books published by their own Doctors, and licensed by their Superiors, and printed by Papists, yet they will not believe us. And so they are taught the easiest way in the world to repell the truth, and confute those that would do them good. It is no more but say, you lye, and all's done.