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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.
Of the gain that comes to the Pope and Prelates by the Simoniacal ⟨p. 224⟩Market of benefices, save me the labour of reciting, and read but Nicol. Clemangis Archidiaconus Baiosensis Tractde Annatibus non solvendis, & Alvarus Pelagius de Planctu Eccles. lib. 2. Art. 15. & l. 1. art. 67. & Claud. Espensaeus in Tit. 1. pag. 68. & Cardinel. Cusanum de Concord. Cathol. lib. 2. cap. 40. & Marc. Ant. de Dom. Spalatensem. de Repub. Eccless. lib. 9. c. 9. & Budaeum li. 5. de Asse; & Duarenum I. C. de sacris Eccles. Minist. lib. 5. c. 8. & passim, Rivet will direct you to many more.
Of the gain that comes to the Pope and Prelates by the Simoniacall ⟨p. 224⟩Market of benefices, save me the labour of reciting, and read but Nicol. Clemangis Archidiaconus Baiosensis Tractde Annatibus non solvendis, & Alvarus Pelagius de Planctu Eccles. lib. 2. Art. 15. & l. 1. art. 67. & Claud. Espensaeus in Tit. 1. pag. 68. & Cardinel. Cusanum de Concord. Cathol. lib. 2. cap. 40. & Marc. Ant. de Dom. Spalatensem. de Repub. Eccless. lib. 9. c. 9. & Budaeum li. 5. de Asse; & Duarenum I. C. de sacris Eccles. Minist. lib. 5. c. 8. & passim, Rivet will direct you to many more.
Yea that the odious sin of Sodomy was common, or too frequent with many of the Clergy, and Popes themselves (gluttony, drunkenness and whoredom being the common smaller sins) see the same Rivet manifesting at large out of the express complaints of Maphaeus, Alvarus Pelagius, and many more of their own writers. Hoffmeister cited by Grotius Discussio Apol. Rivet. p. 72. [At cum Ep scopi quidam ignorant, quid Sacramenti vox significet; cum ipsos pudent sacramenta per seipsos conferre, cum omnia apud ipsos sint venalia, cum Ecclesiam defraudent suis sacramentalibus quae vocant, quae potest Sacramentis apud simplici ores reverentia? Jam quod ad Parachos & Ecclesiastas quod attinet, vix centesimus quisque de sacramentis ullam facit mentionem in suis ad plebem concionibus; hic ex ignorantia, ille ex negligentia.—Gravissime peccatum est ab Episcopis nostris, dumb numerantur potius ordinandi, quam examinantur: & quantum quis nummorum tantum & favoris habet apud quosdam. Quae hic premo prudens lector intelligit. Nolim enim hic referre quales Episcopos, Decanos, Canonicos, Pastores, &c. Nobis subinde intrudat potiùs quam ordinet Romana Curia, Regum item & Principum aulae: qui omnes juxta jocum cujusdam, familiam suam satiant (si modo tales bestiae satiari possent) muneribus sacris—Ab equorum stabulis, è culina rapiuntur ad Sacerdotia, qui, quid Sacerdos sit, ne persomnium quidem cogitarunt, homines qui professione sunt indigni.]