A26947:845
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.
Lest the vices of your Clergy should be laid open and punished, you exempt them from the secular power, and will not have a Magistrate so much as question them for whoredom, drunkenness, or the like crimes. It is one of Pope Nicolas Decrees (as Caranza pag. 395. recites them) that [No Lay man must judge a Priest, nor examine any thing of his life. And no secular Prince ought to judge the facts of any Bishops or Priests whatsoever] And indeed that is the way to be wicked quietly, and sin without noise and infamy. But for our parts, we do not only subject our selves and all our actions to the trial of Princes and the lowest Justice of Peace, as far as the Law gives him power, but we call out to Rulers daily to look more strictly to the Ministry, and suffer not one that is ungodly or scandalous in the Church. And if one such be known, our Godly people will all set against him, and will not rest till they cast him out (in times when there is opportunity for it) and get a better in his stead. The whole Country knows the Truth of this.
Lest the vices of your Clergy should be laid open and punished, you exempt them from the secular power, and will not have a Magistrate so much as question them for whoredom, drunkenness, or the like crimes. It is one of Pope Nicolas Decrees (as Caranza pag. 395. recites them) that [No Lay man must judge a Priest, nor examine any thing of his life. And no secular Prince ought to judge the facts of any Bishops or Priests whatsoever] And indeed that is the way to be wicked quietly, and sin without noise and infamy. But for our parts, we do not only subject our selves and all our actions to the tryal of Princes and the lowest Justice of Peace, as far as the Law gives him power, but we call out to Rulers daily to look more strictly to the Ministry, and suffer not one that is ungodly or scandalous in the Church. And if one such be known, our Godly people will all set against him, and will not rest till they cast him out (in times when there is opportunity for it) and get a better in his stead. The whole Countrey knows the Truth of this.
If you say, as the Quakers do, that yet the most among us are ungodly; I answer, that Those among us that are known ungodly and scandalous are not owned by us, nor are members of our Church, or admitted to the Lords Supper, in those Congregations that exercise Church-discipline; but they are only as Catechuments, whom we preach to and instruct, if not cast out.