A26947:831
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.
And Alvarus Pelagius, (lib. 2. art. 73. fol. 241, &c.) lamenting Whoredom as a common sin, but specially of the Clergy, tells us that the cause is, because [Commonly the Religious of that age were Gluttons or belly Gods, Arrogant, Proud, incomparably beyond secular men, conversing with women, &c. And drink more wine in their Religious state then before, and are commonly carnal. And that the Monks had their female Devotaries, with whom, by the Prelates license they conversed. And being ⟨p. 226⟩sent to preach, they go to play the whoremongers: And that there was scarce any one of the Holy Nuns without her carnal male Devotary, by which they broke their first faith with Christ, &c.] This was your Holy Church.
And Alvarus Pelagius, (lib. 2. art. 73. fol. 241, &c.) lamenting Whoredome as a common sin, but specially of the Clergy, tells us that the cause is, because [Commonly the Religious of that age were Gluttons or belly Gods, Arrogant, Proud, incomparably beyond secular men, conversing with women, &c. And drink more wine in their Religious state then before, and are commonly carnal. And that the Monks had their female Devotaries, with whom, by the Prelates license they conversed. And being ⟨p. 226⟩sent to preach, they go to play the whoremongers: And that there was scarce any one of the Holy Nuns without her carnall male Devotary, by which they broke their first faith with Christ, &c.] This was your Holy Church.
And li. 2. art. 28. he saith [That most of the Clergy mix themselves with gluttony, drunkenness and whoredom, which is their common vice, and most of them give themselves to the unnatural vice (Sodomy)—Thus continually, yea and publicly do they offend against that holy chastity which they promised to the Lord; besides those evils not to be named which in secret they commit, which Papers will not receive, nor pen can write.] Abundance more he hath of the same subject, and their putting their choicest youth into houses of Sodomy. This book of Alvarus Pelagius Bellarmine calleth Liber insignis (de Scriptor. Ecclesiast.)