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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
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.
If any would see the very words of their own Records, and Doctor Vasseur, he may read them in Rivets Sum. Contr. against Baily, and again in his Jesuita Vapulans, Cap. 2.
And as for the life of Calvin after he forsook the Papists, if you will but believe that the City of Geneva, and all the Ministers and others that were about him, in his life and at his death, did know better then Bolseck, a fugitive Apostate Papist that was his enemy, and then far off, you may see at large in Melchior Adamus, and Beza, the description of such a shining burning light as Rome hath not to boast of. He was a man of admirable wit, judgement, industry, and piety. When he had forsaken his own Country for the Gospel sake, and taken up in Geneva, and planted the Gospel there, with Farellus and Viretus, at last the ungodly part getting the Head, the Ministers were banished. And so he settled in in another City. The four Bailiffs of Geneva that banished the Ministers, within two years were ruined by the judgements of God. One of them accused of sedition, seeking to scape through a window fell, and was broken to death. Another was put to death for murder. The other two being accused of Mal-administration, fled and were condemned. Calvin is sent for and entreated to return ⟨p. 194⟩to Geneva: which by importunity, and Bucers persuasion, he yieldeth to. There was he continually molested by the ungodly, and loved by the good. The Malignants whom he would restrain by Discipline from Whoredom, drunkenness, and other wickedness, were still plotting or raging against him, and called their Dogs by his name. But shame was still the end of their attempts. His revenge was to tell them [I see I should have but sorry wages if I served man: but its well for me that I serve him that alway performeth his promises to his servants] As for his work, he preached every day in the week each second week, and besides that, he read three days a week a Divinity Lecture. And every Thursday he guided the Presbytery; and every Friday at a meeting he held an Expository conference and Lecture: so that the whole came to almost twelve Sermons a week. Besides this, he wrote Epistles to most Countries of Christendom (in Europe) to Princes, Divines and others; And he wrote all those great volumes of most Learned judicious Controversies, Commentaries, and other Treatises, which one would have thought might have been work enough for a man that had lived an hundred years, if he had done no other. And many Heretics he confuted, and some convinced and reduced.