A26947:736
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.
Reader, is this Testimony from a Papist like the rest? But yet thou shalt have more. Papirius Massonius a Learned Papist, and Scholar to Baldiom one of Calvins Enemies, wrote Calvins life; and he saith of him, [No day almost passed in which he did not preach to the Citizens. Thrice every eight days as long as he lived, he professed (or publicly taught) Divinity (in the ⟨p. 197⟩Schools;) being Laborious, and always writing or doing something.—Of a weak body, but worn by watchings, reading, writing, meditations, diseases, businesses, preachings. He took very little sleep; and therefore much of his works he dictated in bed to his servant that wrote them from his mouth. He did eat but once a day: and confessed that he found not a more present or surer Remedy for his weakness of stomach and head-ache. His clothing was of small price, to cover him rather than adorn him.—At Worms and Ratisbone he exercised the strength of an excellent wit with so great applause of the Germane Divines, that by the judgement of Melanchthon and his Associates; by a peculiar privilege he was called The Divine. He wrote as much and as well as any man of the contrary parties, whether you respect number, acuteness, language, sharpness, emphasis, or subtlety: not a man of all his Adversaries, whether Catholics, Anabaptists, Lutherans, Arians, or the forsakers of his Party, that wrote against him, did seem to match him in gravity of writing, and weight of words and sharpness, in answering his principles. He almost terrified Pighius himself discoursing of free will, and Sadaletus.] These are the words of a Learned Papist.
Reader, is this Testimony from a Papist like the rest? But yet thou shalt have more. Papirius Massonius a Learned Papist, and Schollar to Baldiom one of Calvins Enemies, wrote Calvins life; and he saith of him, [No day almost passed in which he did not preach to the Citizens. Thrice every eight daies as long as he lived, he professed (or publikely taught) Divinity (in the ⟨p. 197⟩Schools;) being Laborious, and alwayes writing or doing something.—Of a weak body, but worn by watchings, reading, writing, meditations, diseases, businesses, preachings. He took very little sleep; and therefore much of his works he dictated in bed to his servant that wrote them from his mouth. He did eat but once a day: and confessed that he found not a more present or surer Remedy for his weakness of stomack and head-ach. His cloathing was of small price, to cover him rather than adorn him.—At Worms and Ratisbone he exercised the strength of an excellent wit with so great applause of the Germane Divines, that by the judgement of Melanchthon and his Associates; by a peculiar priviledge he was called The Divine. He wrote as much and as well as any man of the contrary parties, whether you respect number, acuteness, language, sharpness, emphasis, or subtilty: not a man of all his Adversaries, whether Catholicks, Anabaptists, Lutheranes, Arrians, or the forsakers of his Party, that wrote against him, did seem to match him in gravity of writing, and weight of words and sharpness, in answering his principles. He almost terrified Pighius himself discoursing of free will, and Sadaletus.] These are the words of a Learned Papist.