A26947:747
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.
Should I recite but half the forgeries of this nature, by which the Priests and Jesuits cheat the poor people, I must be voluminous.
Should I recite but half the forgeries of this nature, by which the Priests and Jesuites cheat the poor people, I must be voluminous.
But alas, their very worship of God is much of it composed of Lies, and is not that like to be acceptable worship? How their Offices and Legends are stuff with fictions, Canus and many of their own confess. And Cassander saith that so few of the relics in all Germany would be found true ones if examined, that its better quite take off the people from the veneration of them. Instancing in one of old that was worshipped as a Saint, and upon enquiry was found to be the bones of a Thief.
But alas, their very worship of God is much of it composed of Lyes, and is not that like to be acceptable worship? How their Offices and Legends are stuff with fictions, Canus and many of their own confess. And Cassander saith that so few of the reliques in all Germany would be found true ones if examined, that its better quite take off the people from the veneration of them. Instancing in one of old that was worshipped as a Saint, and upon enquiry was found to be the bones of a Thief.
Agobardus Bishop of Lyons (saith Usher) complained about eight hundred years ago, that the Antiphonary used in his Church had many ridiculous and fantastical things in it: and ⟨p. 200⟩that therefore he corrected much of it, cutting off what seemed superfluous, or light, or lying, or blasphemous. Agobard. ad Cant. Lugd. de Correct. Antiphon. pag. 396. And not long since Lindanus made the like complaint, that [Not only Apocryphal matters out of the Gospel of Nicodemus and other toys are thrust in, but even the secret prayers, (yea, alas for shame and grief, the very Canon varying, and redundant) are defiled with most filthy faults.]