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…

These thoughts provoked me to many an hours consideration, How the wounds of the Church might be yet healed; And have made it long a principal part of my daily Prayers, that the Reconciling Light might shine from Heaven, that might in some good measure take up our differences; and that God would at last give healing Principles and dispositions unto men, especially to Princes and the Pastors of the Church. But the more I studied how it might be done, the more difficult, if not impossible it appeared, and all because of the Roman Tyranny, the Vice-Christ or pretended Head of the Church, being with them become an essential part of it, and the Subjection to him essential to our Christianity it self. So that (saith Bellarmine de Eccles. l. 3. c. 5.) No man, though he would, can be a Subject of Christ, that is not subject to the Pope; and this with abundance of intolerable corruptions they have fixed by the fancy of their own Infallibility, and built upon this foundation a worldly Kingdom, and the temporal Riches and Dignity of a numerous Clergy, twisting some Princes also into the Interest; so that they cannot possibly yield to us in the very principal points of difference, unless they will deny the very Essence of their New Christianity and Church, and pluck up the foundations which they have so industriously laid, and leave men to a suspicion that they are fallible hereafter, if they shall confess themselves mistaken in any thing now; and unless they will be so admirably self-denying, as to let go the temporal advantages which so many thousands of them are interested in: And whether so much light may be ⟨p. 3⟩hoped for in so dark a generation, or so much love to God, and self-denial in millions of men so void of self-denial, is easy to conjecture: And we cannot in these greatest matters come over to them, unless we will flatly betray our Souls, and depart from the Unity of the Catholic Church, and from the Centre of that Unity, to unite with another called the Roman Catholic Church, in another Centre.

These thoughts provoked me to many an hours consideration, How the wounds of the Church might be yet healed; And have made it long a principal part of my daily Prayers, that the Reconciling Light might shine from Heaven, that might in some good measure take up our differences; and that God would at last give healing Principles and dispositions unto men, especially to Princes and the Pastors of the Church. But the more I studied how it might be done, the more difficult, if not impossible it appear'd, and all because of the Romane Tyranny, the Vice-Christ or pretended Head of the Church, being with them become an essential part of it, and the Subjection to him essential to our Christianity it self. So that (saith Bellarmine de Eccles. l. 3. c. 5.) No man, though he would, can be a Subject of Christ, that is not subject to the Pope; and this with abundance of intolerable corruptions they have fixed by the fancy of their own Infallibility, and built upon this foundation a worldly Kingdom, and the temporal Riches and Dignity of a numerous Clergy, twisting some Princes also into the Interest; so that they cannot possibly yield to us in the very principal points of difference, unless they will deny the very Essence of their New Christianity and Church, and pluck up the foundations which they have so industriously laid, and leave men to a suspicion that they are fallible hereafter, if they shall confess themselves mistaken in any thing now; and unless they will be so admirably self-denying, as to let go the temporal advantages which so many thousands of them are interested in: And whether so much light may be