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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
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They confess (I thank them for nothing) that their common people are bad; but yet say they, [there is some good ones among us, Inter haereticos autem nullus est bonus: but among the heretics not one is good] So saith [Thom. à Jesu de convers. omn Gent. pag. 531. And saith H. Turbervile Manual p. 84. [But I never yet heard of any Protestant Saints in the world.] O wonderful perverseness of the hearts of Sectaries! O wonderful Patience of God! Did not this mans heart tremble or smite him to write so horrid, so impudent a reproach against so many precious Saints of God? Durst he thus attempt to rob the Lord of the fruit of his blood? and to vilify his Jewels? and as Rabshakah, to reproach the Israel of God? to attempt to pluck them out of Christs hand that are given him by his Father; and to shut them out of heaven, that are redeemed and made heirs by so dear a Price; and to spit in their faces whom Christ hath washed with his blood? Did he not fear that dreadful threatening of Christ, Mat 18. 6. [but who so shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.] Though I see so much impiety among the Papists, I dare not say, I dare not think that God hath not some Holy ones among them. Its dangerous condemning those that Christ will Justify; and making his members to be the members of the Devil, and abusing so grossly the apple of his eye. If I see a man live wickedly, I dare say that he is of a wicked life; but I dare not say that All are so, unless it be among men, whose principles I am sure are inconsistent with godliness, and I know that they hold those principles practically or prevalently. And therefore I must say again, that I have been acquainted with some Papists, learned and unlearned. The unlearned few of them knew what. Christianity was, nor whether Christ were God or Man, Male or Female, nor whether ever he was the King, Prophet or Priest of the Church, nor for ⟨p. 216⟩what end he dyed, nor what faith, or repentance is; but were infidels under the name of Papists, or Catholics. The learned and unlearned live in some gross sin or other, either all or near all that I have been acquainted with. The better sort would ordinarily swear, [by their Lady, and by the Mass.] and sometime greater oaths.
They confess (I thank them for nothing) that their common people are bad; but yet say they, [there is some good ones among us, Inter haereticos autem nullus est bonus: but among the hereticks not one is good] So saith [Thom. à Jesu de convers. omn Gent. pag. 531. And saith H. Turbervile Manual p. 84. [But I never yet heard of any Protestant Saints in the world.] O wonderfull perverseness of the hearts of Sectaries! O wonderfull Patience of God! Did not this mans heart tremble or smite him to write so horrid, so impudent a reproach against so many precious Saints of God? Durst he thus attempt to rob the Lord of the fruit of his blood? and to vilifie his Jewels? and as Rabshakah, to reproach the Israel of God? to attempt to pluck them out of Christs hand that are given him by his Father; and to shut them out of heaven, that are redeemed and made heirs by so dear a Price; and to spit in their faces whom Christ hath washed with his blood? Did he not fear that dreadfull threatning of Christ, Mat 18. 6. [but who so shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.] Though I see so much impiety among the Papists, I dare not say, I dare not think that God hath not some Holy ones among them. Its dangerous condemning those that Christ will Justifie; and making his members to be the members of the Devil, and abusing so grosly the apple of his eye. If I see a man live wickedly, I dare say that he is of a wicked life; but I dare not say that All are so, unless it be among men, whose principles I am sure are inconsistent with godliness, and I know that they hold those principles practically or prevalently. And therefore I must say again, that I have been acquainted with some Papists, learned and unlearned. The unlearned few of them knew what. Christianity was, nor whether Christ were God or Man, Male or Female, nor whether ever he was the King, Prophet or Priest of the Church, nor for