A26947:839
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.
3. Their third Proof of the Holiness of their Churches, is their unmarried Clergy. Answ. 1. I will not stir too long in this puddle, or else I could tell you out of your own writers of the odious fruits of your unmarried Clergy. Only (because the essential parts of your Church are they that nearliest concern your cause) I will ask you in brief, whether it was not Pope John the eleventh that had Theodora for his whore? whether it was no Pope Sergius the third that begot Pope John ⟨p. 228⟩the twelfth of Marosia? whether John the twelfth, alias the thirteenth (saith Luitprandus, and others of your own) did not ravish maids and wives at the Apostolic doors, and at last was killed in the Act of Adultery? whether it were not Pope Innocent of whom a Papist wrote this distich?
3. THeir third Proof of the Holiness of their Churches, is their unmarried Clergy. Answ. 1. I will not stir too long in this puddle, or else I could tell you out of your own writers of the odious fruits of your unmarried Clergy. Only (because the essential parts of your Church are they that neerliest concern your cause) I will ask you in brief, whether it was not Pope John the eleventh that had Theodora for his whore? whether it was no Pope Sergius the third that begot Pope John ⟨p. 228⟩the twelfth of Marosia? whether John the twelfth, alias the thirteenth (saith Luitprandus, and others of your own) did not ravish maids and wives at the Apostolick doors, and at last was killed in the Act of Adultery? whether it were not Pope Innocent of whom a Papist wrote this distich?
Octo Nocens pueros genuit, totidemque puellas. Hunc merito potuit dicere Roma patrem.