A26947:708
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.
And some of them will continue a year, or two, or seven in this case, daily falling in such fits as one would think should destroy or weaken them presently, and yet after the fits, be almost as well as ever, and their strength doth not much decay. If they hear any mention of a Witch, they will likely take a conceit that they are bewitched; and then in their fits they will cry out upon the Witch, and if they see her, they will fall into a fit. If they get but a conceit that they are Possessed with a Devil, (by hearing the mention of others that were possessed) they will by the power of corrupted fancy, play the parts of the possessed, and rage, and roar, and swear, and speak as in the person of the Devil, and take on them to prophesy, or tell of secrets. All this I have known: and I have eased some of them by medicine in a few moments, and cured them (at that time) in a few days: So that I could easily have made the common people believe that I had cast out a Devil, if I had but had the design and conscience of a Papist. A while ago a neighbour Minister told me of a neighbour that was handled thus. I told him what disease it was, and advised him to persuade her to a judicious Physician. But the next I hear of her was that neglecting the Physician, she was cured by some Papist Priest, and thereupon was turned Papist. And no doubt but among themselves it is reported for a Miracle.
And some of them will continue a year, or two, or seven in this case, daily falling in such fits as one would think should destroy or weaken them presently, and yet after the fits, be almost as well as ever, and their strength doth not much decay. If they hear any mention of a Witch, they will likely take a conceit that they are bewitched; and then in their fits they will cry out upon the Witch, and if they see her, they will fall into a fit. If they get but a conceit that they are Possessed with a Devil, (by hearing the mention of others that were possessed) they will by the power of corrupted fancy, play the parts of the possessed, and rage, and rore, and swear, and speak as in the person of the Devil, and take on them to prophesie, or tell of secrets. All this I have known: and I have eased some of them by medicine in a few moments, and cured them (at that time) in a few dayes: So that I could easily have made the common people believe that I had cast out a Devil, if I had but had the design and conscience of a Papist. A while ago a neighbour Minister told me of a neighbour that was handled thus. I told him what disease it was, and advised him to perswade her to a judicious Physitian. But the next I hear of her was that neglecting the Physitian, she was cured by some Papist Priest, and thereupon was turned Papist. And no doubt but among themselves it is reported for a Miracle.