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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.
But if besides these you would read but Nic. Clemangis, Alvarus Pelagius de planctu Ecclesiae (lib. 2. art. 2. fol. 104.) and many such like; or their Poets Mantuan, Pants, &c. or Petrarch, Mirandula, &c. you would think the Holiness of Rome-should be the poorest proof in the world of their being the only Church.
But if besides these you would read but Nic. Clemangis, Alvarus Pelagius de planctu Ecclesiae (lib. 2. art. 2. fol. 104.) and many such like; or their Poets Mantuan, Pantes, &c. or Petrarch, Mirandula, &c. you would think the Holiness of Rome-should be the poorest proof in the world of their being the only Church.
Their Espensaeus and others recite that Distich,
Vivere qui cupitis sanctè, discedite Româ: Omnia cùm liceant, non licet esse bonum.
Platina saith (in vita Marcellini) [Our vices are so increased, that they have scarce left us any place for mercy with God. How great is the Covetousness of the Priests! especially of those that rule all! how great lust! how great ambition and pomp! how great ignorance of themselves, and of the Christian doctrine! how little Religion, and that rather counterfeit, then true! how corrupt manners! even such as in the profanest secular men were to be detested! its not worth the speaking: when they sin so openly and so publicly, as if they sought Praise by it.