A26947:823
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.
These are your best Popes! Poor men! that can forgive other mens sins, and pardon them the pains of Purgatory, and cannot save their own souls from Hell! Are they not like to Govern the Universal Church well, that can no better Govern themselves, or that one City where they dwell? And are not these men worthy to be consulted as infallible Oracles, by those that dwell at the Antipodes, though it cost them their lives to sail or travail to them? Can he be a Christian or be saved that believeth not in one of these men? Or can any man receive the Christian faith or Scriptures, till he first know these good men to be Christs infallible Vicars?
And how many thousand Whores are licensed at Rome, how sumptuously they live, what revenues come to the Pope by them? many of your own mention. And though some of you write for it, and your Pope still maintaineth it, yet Mariana one of your Jesuits (though he was for King-killing) condemneth this, lib. de Spectaculis, cap. 16. And your Claud. Espensaeus lib. 3. de Continentia. cap. 4. sets it out with a witness, lamenting Rome, as if it were turned all into one Whore-house; and be▪ wailing it, that the Jews should so far shame you, that no one of their children may play the harlots, unless they first turn (Popish) Christians and be baptized, and then they have their liberty.
And how many thousand Whores are licensed at Rome, how sumptuously they live, what revenues come to the Pope by them? many of your own mention. And though some of you write for it, and your Pope still maintaineth it, yet Mariana one of your Jesuites (though he was for King-killing) condemneth this, lib. de Spectaculis, cap. 16. And your Claud. Espensaeus lib. 3. de Continentia. cap. 4. sets it out with a witness, lamenting Rome, as if it were turned all into one Whore-house; and be▪ wailing it, that the Jews should so far shame you, that no one of their children may play the harlots, unless they first turn (Popish) Christians and be baptized, and then they have thier liberty.