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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.
Whereas the Church of Rome takes in all sorts of the unclean, and is so impure and polluted a society, that its a wonder how they should have the face to boast of their holiness to men that live among them and know them. Thousands of their members are stark Infidels, as not knowing the Essentials of the Christian Faith. Its known here in Ireland, that abundance of them know not who Christ was, but that he was a better man than Saint Patrick: Bishop Usher saw it and lamented it, that they perished as Heathens for want of knowing Christianity it self, while they went under the name of Catholics: and therefore he would have persuaded the Popish Priests to have Consented that they should be all taught a Catechism of the common principles that we are agreed in; but he could not procure it: when Dr. Jo. White asked one of them in Lancashire, who Jesus Christ was? she answered, that [sure it was some good thing, or else it should not have been put into the Creed.]
Whereas the Church of Rome takes in all sorts of the unclean, and is so impure and polluted a society, that its a wonder how they should have the face to boast of their holiness to men that live among them and know them. Thousands of their members are stark Infidels, as not knowing the Essentials of the Christian Faith. Its known here in Ireland, that abundance of them know not who Christ was, but that he was a better man than Saint Patrick: Bishop Usher saw it and lamented it, that they perished as Heathens for want of knowing Christianity it self, while they went under the name of Catholicks: and therefore he would have perswaded the Popish Priests to have Consented that they should be all taught a Catechism of the common principles that we are agreed in; but he could not procure it: when Dr. Jo. White asked one of them in Lancashire, who Jesus Christ was? she answered, that [sure it was some good thing, or else it should not have been put into the Creed.]
And how much swearing, whoredom, drunkenness, and other wickedness is in their Church, is known not only by the complaints of their own writers, but by the too common experience of Travellers. We have known Papists that have turned from them by the experience of one journey to Rome, and seeing what is there. And for Church censures by which any of these should be purged out, they are laid by, and reserved for other uses, even as thunder-bolts for the Popes Adversaries, and the servants of Christ whom they take for Heretics; and for Princes whom the Pope would have deposed and murdered. These things are not mere words, but the lives of many Kings and Princes have been the sacrifice of the Roman Holiness.