A26947:844
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.
We believe that a single life is of very great Convenience to a Pastor, when it can be held: and that Christs Rule must be observed [Every man cannot receive this saying, but he that can, let him receive it] And whether Ministers be Married or not Married (as many now living in the next Parishes to me are not, no more then my self) it is a strange thing with us to hear of one in many Counties that was ever once guilty of fornication in his life: and if any one be but once guilty in the Ministry, he is cast out, though he should be never so penitent, as any man that readeth the Act for ejecting scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters may see. As also you may there see, that if he were but once drunk, if he swear, curse, or be guilty of other scandalous sins, he is cast out without any more ado. And none ⟨p. 229⟩are so earnest for the through execution of this Law as the Ministers. If a Minister do but go into an Alehouse, except to visit the sick, or on weighty business, it is a scandalous thing among us: we do not teach as the Jesuits cited by the Jansenist Montaltus, that a man may lawfully go into a Whorehouse to exhort them from Whoredom, though he hath found by experience, that when he comes among them he is overcome, and plays the Whoremonger with them.
We believe that a single life is of very great Convenience to a Pastor, when it can be held: and that Christs Rule must be observed [Every man cannot receive this saying, but he that can, let him receive it] And whether Ministers be Marryed or not Marryed (as many now living in the next Parishes to me are not, no more then my self) it is a strange thing with us to hear of one in many Counties that was ever once guilty of fornication in his life: and if any one be but once guilty in the Ministry, he is cast out, though he should be never so penitent, as any man that readeth the Act for ejecting scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters may see. As also you may there see, that if he were but once drunk, if he swear, curse, or be guilty of other scandalous sins, he is cast out without any more ado. And none ⟨p. 229⟩are so earnest for the through execution of this Law as the Ministers. If a Minister do but go into an Alehouse, except to visit the sick, or on weighty business, it is a scandalous thing among us: we do not teach as the Jesuites cited by the Jansenist Montaltus, that a man may lawfully go into a Whorehouse to exhort them from Whoredom, though he hath found by experience, that when he comes among them he is overcome, and playes the Whoremonger with them.