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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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But perhaps there is little of this filth among them to be cast out: He that readeth their own writers, or liveth among them, ⟨p. 220⟩and seeth their lives, will hardly think so. He that had but seen the Murders of their Popes for the obtaining of the Popedom, or how Pope Stephen raged against the Carcass of Pope Formosus, drawing it out of the grave, and changing its Pontifical habit to a secular, and cutting off his fingers; or he that had seen Pope Christopher casting the Corps of Pope Leo the fifth into the River Tiber; or Pope Sergius keeping the said Christopher bound in prison; or Pope Boniface the seventh putting out his Cardinals eyes; would scarce believe that the Holy Seat of Peter were indeed Holy: (all which Platina and others of their own writers give us notice of.) He that readeth Baronius himself telling us (To. 10. an. 897. n. 6.) how Pope Stephen the seventh defiled St. Peters seat with unheard of sacrilege, not to be named; and (sect. 4. ib.) and how the Princes of Tuscia were brought into Peters Chair and Christs Throne, being monstrous men, of most filthy lives, and desperate manners, and every way most filthy.] He that shall read the same flattering Cardinal, saying, (Can. 900. sect. 1.) [that ugly monsters were thrust into the Papacy, that it was daubed with dung, infected with stinks, defiled with filthiness, and collowed by these with a perpeutal infamy] And (an. 912. sect. 8.) [that at Rome, the most powerful and the most sordid whores did Rule; at whose will the seats were changed, Bishops were made, and, which is horrid to be heard, and not to be spoken, their sweet-hearts false Popes were thrust into Peters seat.] And [that for an hundred and fifty years the Popes were wholly fallen from the virtue of their Predecessors; being disorderly, and Apostatical, rather then Apostolical, not entering by the door, but by the back-door] saith a passionate Papist, Genebrard, Chron. l. 4. an. 901. I say he that shall read these impartially, will scarce think the Head of their Church hath been Holy, which is an Essential part of it, (nor that their succession is uninterrupted.)
But perhaps there is little of this filth among them to be cast out: He that readeth their own writers, or liveth among them, ⟨p. 220⟩and seeth their lives, will hardly think so. He that had but seen the Murders of their Popes for the obtaining of the Popedom, or how Pope Stephen raged against the Carcass of Pope Formosus, drawing it out of the grave, and changing its Pontifical habit to a secular, and cutting off his fingers; or he that had seen Pope Christopher casting the Corps of Pope Leo the fift into the River Tiber; or Pope Sergius keeping the said Christopher bound in prison; or Pope Boniface the seventh putting out his Cardinals eyes; would scarce believe that the Holy Seat of Peter were indeed Holy: (all which Platina and others of their own writers give us notice of.) He that readeth Baronius himself telling us (To. 10. an. 897. n. 6.) how Pope Stephen the seventh defiled St. Peters seat with unheard of sacriledge, not to be named; and (sect. 4. ib.) and how the Princes of Tuscia were brought into Peters Chair and Christs Throne, being monstrous men, of most filthy lives, and desperate manners, and every way most filthy.] He that shall read the same flattering Cardinal, saying, (Can. 900. sect. 1.) [that ugly monsters were thrust into the Papacy, that it was dawbed with dung, infected with stinks, defiled with filthiness, and collowed by these with a perpeutal infamy] And (an. 912. sect. 8.) [that at Rome, the most powerful and the most sordid whores did Rule; at whose will the seats were changed, Bishops were made, and, which is horrid to be heard, and not to be spoken, their sweet-hearts false Popes were thrust into Peters seat.] And [that for an hundred and fifty years the Popes were wholly faln from the vertue of their Predecessors; being disorderly, and Apostatical, rather then Apostolical, not entring by the door, but by the back-door] saith a passionate Papist, Genebrard, Chron. l. 4. an. 901. I say he that shall read these impartially, will scarce think the Head of their Church hath been Holy, which is an Essential part of it, (nor that their succession is uninterrupted.)