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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.
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.
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 needlesly, who are pardoned, glorified Saints in Heaven. St. Augustine whilest he leaned to the Maniches had a bastard, and confesseth himself guilty of fornication. St. Hierom that was so vehement for Virginity, and lived a Monastick 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, se 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.
Now if one of our ordinary Ministers should be but guilty of such a sin, though but once, and that before Conversion, no doubt but it would lye heavy on their Consciences; and I am sure it would leave such a blot on their names, that were never likely to be worn off while they live.
Now if one of our ordinary Ministers should be but guilty of such a sin, though but once, and that before Conversion, no doubt but it would lye heavye on their Consciences; and I am sure it would leave such a blot on their names, that were never likely to be worn off while they live.