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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.
3. They labour by scoffs and nicknames to make them odious. As they were the Authors or chief fomenters of the old scorn under the name of Puritans, so are they of many more of late. If in Court, or Parliament, City or Country; you hear men set themselves of purpose to scorn or vilify the Ministry, its very probable that they are either secret Papists, or their deluded servitors. If they speak of men that regard the Ministry, and be not hardened as they to a despising of Christ in his servants, they call such [Priest ridden] and the Pastors they scornfully call [Jack-Presbyters, Drivines,] and many other scoffs are at hand, to serve the ends of the Devil and the Pope, by alienating the Affections of the people from their Teachers, that so they may devour them at pleasure.
3. They labour by seoffs and nicknames to make them odious. As they were the Authors or chief fomenters of the old scorn under the name of Puritans, so are they of many more of late. If in Court, or Parliament, City or Countrey; you hear men set themselves of purpose to scorn or vilifie the Ministry, its very probable that they are either secret Papists, or their deluded serviters. If they speak of men that regard the Ministry, and be not hardened as they to a despising of Christ in his servants, they call such [Priest ridden] and the Pastors they scornfully call [Iack-Presbyters, Drivines,] and many other scoffs are at hand, to serve the ends of the Devil and the Pope, by alienating the Affections of the people from their Teachers, that so they may devour them at pleasure.
4. Another of their ways of reproach is, by telling the people what odious divisions are among us, and how many minds we are of, and how oft we change, and such like reproaches, by their mouthing it they can make something of; while they never tell them how much more changeable they have been, and what divisions are among themselves, incomparably beyond all ours. Nor do they ever tell them how far we are united, and how small the differences among us are, and such as must be expected while we all know but in part.
4. Another of their wayes of reproach is, by telling the people what odious divisions are among us, and how many minds we are of, and how oft we change, and such like reproaches, by their mouthing it they can make something of; while they never tell them how much more changeable they have been, and what divisions are among themselves, incomparably beyond all ours. Nor do they ever tell them how far we are united, and how small the differences among us are, and such as must be expected while we all know but in part.