A26947:703
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.
CHAP. XXIX.
Detect. 20. A Nother of their deceits is by pretended Miracles. If they do but hear of a Wench that hath the strangulatus uteri, or furor uterinus, or such hysterical Passions in any violent degree, they presently go to cast the Devil out of her, that so they may make deluded people think that they have wrought a Miracle. And usually the Country people, and perhaps the diseased woman her self, may be so much unacquainted with the disease, as verily to believe the Priests, that they have a Devil indeed: and so turn Papists when the cure is wrought, as thinking it was done by the finger of God. The nature of this disease is to cause such strange symptoms, that most ignorant people that see them, do think that the persons are either bewitched, or have a Devil. At this very time while I am writing this, I am put to dissuade a man from accusing one of his neighbours of witchcraft, because his daughter hath this disease, and crieth out of her. Lest the Papists get further advantage by this ignorance of the people, I shall acquaint them briefly with some of the symptoms of this disease. It usually seizeth upon young women between the Age of seventeen and thirty two years: And most commonly on those that are of a sound complexion, somewhat sanguine, or at least, fleshly and strong, and but seldom on the weaker sort (in this manner.) When it is but a mere strangulation, women commonly know it, by the rising to their throat, and swelling, and the like: But when it comes to the disease we mention, it causeth them to fall by fits into sudden trances, and swoons: in which at first usually they seem stupid as dead, if it be in a colder body, but after they grow to violent motions, and strivings, and ragings, so that its as much as two can do to hold them. And when the fit is over, they are well again. Sometime there will be motions like convulsive in the head, the hands, and the fingers distinctly: so that you shall see one hand violently moved to some part of the body, so that it will be hard to remove it. Sometime one finger set double, and then another, and after that another, so that it will be hard till the fit is over to set them strait. Usually the body tossed up and down