A26947:848
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.
The same Council decreed, Canon. 21. that [None must compose any Accusations against the Pope] No marvel then if all Popes go for Innocents. But we are liable to the accusations of any.
The same Council decreed, Canon. 21. that [None must compose any Accusations against the Pope] No marvail then if all Popes go for Innocents. But we are lyable to the accusations of any.
And because you charge our Churches with Unholiness, and that with such an height of Impudency, as I am certain the Devil himself doth not believe you, that provokes you to it; even that there is not One Good among us, nor one that hath Charity, nor can be saved (unless by turning Papist,) I shall therefore go a little higher, and tell you that I doubt not but the Churches in England where I live, are purer far than those were in the days of Augustine, Hierom, &c. yea and that the Pastors of our Churches are less scandalous then they were then; what if I should compare many of them even to St. Augustine, St. Hierom, and such others, both in Doctrine and Holiness of Life? should I do so, I know you would account it arrogancy: but yet I will presume to make some comparison, and leave you to Judge impartially if you can.
And because you charge our Churches with Unholiness, and that with such an height of Impudency, as I am certain the Divel himself doth not believe you, that provokes you to it; even that there is not One Good among us, nor one that hath Charity, nor can be saved (unless by turning Papist,) I shall therefore go a little higher, and tell you that I doubt not but the Churches in England where I live, are purer far than those were in the dayes of Augustine, Hierom, &c. yea and that the Pastors of our Churches are less scandalous then they were then; what if I should compare many of them even to St. Augustine, St. Hierom, and such others, both in Doctrine and Holiness of Life? should I do so, I know you would account it arrogancy: but yet I will presume to make some comparison, and leave you to Judge impartially if you can.