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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.
In an English Council at Berghamsted an. 697. the seventh Canon is this [If a Priest leave his Adultery, and do not naughtily defer Baptism, nor is given to drunkenness, let him keep his Ministry, and the privilege of his habit] Spelman, pag. 195. King Allured in the Preface to his Laws tells us, that except Treason and Desertion of their Lords, the Councils of the Clergy did lay but some pecuniary mulct on other sins, Spelm. pag. 362.
In an English Council at Berghamsted an. 697. the seventh Canon is this [If a Priest leave his Adultery, and do not naughtily defer Baptism, nor is given to drunkenness, let him keep his Ministry, and the priviledge of his habit] Spelman, pag. 195. King Alured in the Preface to his Laws tells us, that except Treason and Desertion of their Lords, the Councils of the Clergy did lay but some pecuniary mulct on other sins, Spelm. pag. 362.
All this shows that the Church then was much more corrupt then ours now in England.
All this shews that the Church then was much more corrupt then ours now in England.
Yea the best of the Fathers had such blots, that I may well make their Confessions another discovery, that our Churches are as pure and holy as theirs. I will name but few of the chief, because I would not rake into their faults needlessly, who are pardoned, glorified Saints in Heaven. St. Augustine whilst he leaned to the Manichees had a bastard, and confesseth himself guilty of fornication. St. Hierom that was so vehement for Virginity, and lived a Monastic life, doth yet confess that he was not a Virgin. St. Bernard that lived so Contemplative a life, in his Serm. de beata virgine post serm. 5. de Assumpt. confesseth, see carere virginitate, that he lacked his virginity. And though Bellarmine (de scriptor. Ecccles. pag. 224.) do from that only reason question whether it be Bernards, yet it is in the second Tome among his undoubted writings, and this reason is a poor disproof.