A26947:827
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.
Papirius Massonius that wrote the Deeds of the Popes for their honour, and sought his Reward from Sixtus Quintus, saith (De Episcop. urb. lib. 6. in Gregor. 13.) [No man doth now a days look for Holiness in Popes: those are judged the best, ⟨p. 225⟩that are a little good, or less naught then other Mortals use to be.]
Papirius Massonius that wrote the Deeds of the Popes for their honour, and sought his Reward from Sixtus Quintus, saith (De Episcop. urb. lib. 6. in Gregor. 13.) [No man doth now a dayes look for Holiness in Popes: those are judged the best, ⟨p. 225⟩that are a little good, or less naught then other Mortals use to be.]
Pope Pius the second was one of the best that your Papal seat a long time had; and yet in his Epistle to his Father (Epist. 15.) that was angry with him for fornication, he saith, [Ais dolerete—i. e. You say you are sorry for my crime, that I begot a son in sin (or bastardy) I know not what opinion you have of me. Certainly you that are flesh your selves did not beget a son that is made of stone or iron. You know what a Cock you were your self. And for my part I am not gelded, nor one of them that are frigid (or impotent) Nor am I an hypocrite, that I should desire rather to seem good, then to be good. I ingenuously confess my error, for am not holier then David, nor wiser then Solomon. Its an ancient and usual sin; I know not who is without it. (A holy Church you are that while) This plague is spread far and near, if it be a plague to make use of our naturals, though I see it not, seeing Nature, which doth nothing amiss, hath bred this Appetite in all living creatures, that mankind should be continued.] This was he that was the glory of your Papacy, that knew none without this beastly sin.
Pope Pius the second was one of the best that your Papal seat a long time had; and yet in his Epistle to his Father (Epist. 15.) that was angry with him for fornication, he saith, [Ais dolerete—i. e. You say you are sorry for my crime, that I begot a son in sin (or bastardy) I know not what opinion you have of me. Certainly you that are flesh your selves did not beget a son that is made of stone or iron. You know what a Cock you were your self. And for my part I am not gelded, nor one of them that are frigid (or impotent) Nor am I an hypocrite, that I should desire rather to seem good, then to be good. I ingenuously confess my error, for am not holyer then David, nor wiser then Solomon. Its an antient and usual sin; I know not who is without it. (A holy Church you are that while) This plague is spread far and neer, if it be a plague to make use of our naturals, though I see it not, seeing Nature, which doth nothing amiss, hath bred this Appetite in all living creatures, that mankind should be continued.] This was he that was the glory of your Papacy, that knew none without this beastly sin.