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A26947	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 ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing B1295; ESTC R19360	404,289	516

was over the Bishop read the first verse and then the Boy had no fit thinking it had been some other verse And thus they proved him a deceiver and the Boy was much confounded but pretended more distraction and then that he might get away he complained of extream sickness and made water in the Urinal as black as ink groaning when he made it But the third day after they espyed him mixing ink with his Urine and nimbly conveying away the Inkhorn And when they came in upon him and found him in the conveyance he broke out into tears and was suddenly cured and confessed all how he had been taught his art and how he did all and confessed that his intent was to be cured by a Priest and to turn Papist and whether they have catcht him again or no I know not for I hear he is a Quaker in Bristol or at least a reviler of the Ministry The Bishop took his examination at large Octob. 8. 13. 1620. If any doubt of the story they may be satisfied yet by the Boy himself or by the Reverend Bishop yet alive or by any of the neighbours in Bilson that were at age there but thirty seven years ago But before the Bishop had discovered the knavery one of the Conjuring Priests writes the Narrative of the business which is printed with the rest and is Entituled A Faithful Relation of the proceedings of the Catholick Gentlemen with the Boy of Bilson shewing c. And they begin with Not to us O Lord but to thy Name give the Glory And so they proceed to make their report of it for deluding the people as a Miracle And the writing was by a Papist Gentleman examined attested upon Oath to be received from one Mr. Wheeler c. But when they heard of the Discovery they were ashamed of their faithful Relation At last the Bishop brought the Boy at the next summers Assizes July 26. 1621. to ask pardon openly of God and the woman accused by him and of the Countrey cheated by him and there was an end of that Popish Miracle Abundance more such I could give you out of certain records but I recited this for the sake of H. T. and the Papists of Wolverhampton And for your Miracles I beseech you if you regard not us yet open your ears to a Jesuite that speaks the Truth Joseph Acosta de temporib noviss lib. 3. c. 3. To all the Miracles of Antichrist though he do great ones the Church shall boldly oppose the Belief of the Scriptures and by the inexpugnable Testimony of this Truth shall by most clear light dispell all his juglings as Clouds Signs are given to Infidels Scriptures to Believers and therefore the Primitive Church abounded with Miracles when Infidels were to be called But the last when the Faithful are already Called shall rest more on the Scripture then on Miracles Yea I will boldly say that all Miracles are vain and empty unless they be approved by the Scripture that is have a doctrine conform to the Scripture But the Scripture it self is of it self a most firm Argument of Truth And the same Acosta confesseth in his Indian History that they do no Miracles in the Indies where the boast is And if they did it would confirm Christianity but not Popery Yea if Miracles be so much to be lookt at why will you not give us leave to observe them The same Miracles that you boast of do testifie against you if they be true To instance now but in one Prosper makes mention of a Miracle which Thyraeus de Daemoniac pag. 76. and many more of yours recite that was done by the Sacramental Wine A person possessed by the Devil was cured after many other means used in vain by the Drinking of the Wine in the Eucharist And doth not this Miracle justifie us that give the people the Wine and condemn you that refuse to give it them Many other Miracles I could recite that the Fathers say were done by the Sacrament in both kinds received which condemn you that forbid it CHAP. XXX Detect 21. ANother of the Papists waies of deceiving is by impudent Lyes and Slanders against their Adversaries which they vent with such confidence that the seduced people easily believe them They that are taught to believe their Priests against their own seeing hearing feeling tasting and smelling must needs believe the vilest Lyes that they are pleased to utter in cases where the miserable people are unable to disprove them I will give you but a few of that multitude of Instances that might be given 1. In a Manuscript of the Papists which I lately received from a Neighbour of Sturbridge as sent from Wolverhampton there are these words with which they conclude Luther having richly supped and made his friends merry with his facete conceits died the same night This is testified by Cochleus in vita Lutheri And John Calvin a branded sodomite consumed with lice and worms died blaspheming and calling upon the Devil This is registred by Schlusselburge and Bolseck these were the Ends of the Parents of the Protestant and Presbyterian pretended Reformed Religions And as if their own tongue must sentence them to Hell in the very words before they say All Lyars their part shall be in the pool burning with fire and brimstone which is the second death And so make Application of it to the Protestants as being Lyars and when they have done conclude with the two forecited impudent Lies of Luther and Calvin The like words of Calvin hath the late Marquess of Worcester or Dr. Baily for him in his Papers to King Charles the whole writing being stuffed with such impudent Lies that one would wonder that humane nature should be capable of such wickedness and that the silly people should swallow down such heaps of falshood And it is not these two alone but multitudes of Papists that have written these Lies of Luther and Calvin Thyraeus the Jesuite in his Book de Daemoniacis part 1. cap. 8. pag. 21. tells us this story that the same day that Luther dyed there was at Gheola a Town in Brabant many persons possessed of Devils that waited on their Saint Dymna for Deliverance and were all that day delivered but the next day they were all possessed again whereupon the Exorcist or some body asked the Devils where they had been the day before and they answered that they were commanded by their Prince to be at the Funeral of their fellow Labourer Luther And for proof of this Luthers own servant that was with him at his death looking out at the window did more then once to his great terror see a company of ugly spirits leaping and dancing about without and also that the Crows followed the Corps all the way with a great noise O wonderful patience and mercy of God that suffereth such abominable Lyars to live and doth not cause some sudden vengeance to befall them Reader I will tell thee now the case

asserting that Protestants cannot be saved do easily learn to practice this Lesson of the Pope and Council I come now to prove that your Pope and Councill and Faith are false and that others besides you may be in a state of Charity and Salvation For you confess your selves that he that is in a state of Charity is in a state of Salvation 1. If a man may know his own heart then there are others besides Papists that are in Charity and are godly men and so in a state of Salvation But a man may know his own heart therefore c. The Consequence of the Major is plain by inward experience to every godly honest man that knoweth himself If I can know my own heart I must needs say I love God and am not void of sincere Godliness and Honesty And that I may know my own heart I can tell also by experience For to know my own Knowledge and Will is an ordinary certain thing if not by intuition it self And if a man cannot know whether he believe and love God or not then no man can give thanks for it nor make Profession of it nay men cannot converse together if they cannot know their own minds And Bellarmine confesseth that we may have a moral Conjectural certainty that we have true Love and are justified And then I have a moral conjectural certainty at least that Popery is false because I have at least such a certainty that I am not ungodly or unjustified So that look what measure of knowledge or perswasion any Protestant hath that he is truly honest and justified that measure of knowledge must he needs have if he understand himself that Popery is a deceit So that from hence you may gather these four conclusions 1. That all that have any knowledge or perswasion that they are not ungodly unjustified persons themselves and void of the true Love of God are quite out of danger from turning Papists if they understand but what Popery is and if they do not they cannot turn to it but in part 2. That never any honest godly man did turn Papist in the world and this the Papists themselves will justifie For they say by a Pope and general Council that no man can be saved but a Papist and they generally hold that all that have Charity and are justified shall be saved if they so die So that if Popery be true then no man had Charity or true Godliness before he was a Papist and therefore never did one godly man or woman turn Papist And therefore let them take the honour of their wicked seduced Ones What glory is it to them that none ever turned to them but ungodly people 3. And it followeth that the Papists do not so much as desire or invite any godly man to turn to them If you understand their meaning they call you not to turn to them if you are not ungodly persons 4. And hence it follows that every one that turneth Papist doth thereby confess that he was a wicked man before and that he had not the least true love to God that he was not justified but a graceless wretch In a word all you that do but know or hope that you have any saving Grace have an Argument here against Popery which all the Jesuites in the world cannot confute For you know your own hearts better then they And they have no way to turn you to them but by perswading you that you are not what you are and that you know not what you know So that plainly this is your Argument I know or I have good perswasions that I am not utterly void of Charity or saving Grace therefore I know or have the same perswasions that Popery is false which determineth that none have Charity or saving Grace but Papists 2. But I proceed to a further proof of the Minor A man may have a very strong Conjecture that many others that are no Papists have saving Grace though he had no perswasion that he hath such Grace himself And consequently he must have as strong a conjecture that Popery is false What abundance of holy heavenly persons have we known of all ranks among us Such as have lived in dayly breathings after God spending no small part of their lives upon their knees and in the serious and reverent attendance upon God in holy worship meditating day and night upon his Law hating all known sin and delighting in holiness and longing for perfection and living in constant Temperance and Chastity abhorring the very appearance of evill and making conscience of an idle word or thought devoting their lives and labors and all they have to God giving all their Estates some of them to pious and charitable uses except what is necessary for their dayly bread even mean cloathing and food taming their bodies and bringing them into subjection and denying themselves and mortifying the flesh and contemning all the Honors or Riches of the world resolving to suffer death it self as many of their Brethren have done from the Papists rather then sin wilfully against God and their consciences in a word living to God and longing to be with him and manifesting these longings to the very death grieving more at any time if they have but lost the sense and perswasions of the love of God then if they had lost all the world and would give a thousand worlds if they had them for more of the Love of God in their souls and fuller assurance of his Love and Communion with him As far as words and groans and tears and the very drift of a mans life and the expending of all that he hath can help us to know another mans heart so far do we know all this by others that have lived among us And may we not conjecture and be strongly perswaded that these or some of these or some one of these was a holy justified person And now Reader if ever thou be tempted to be a Papist I will tell thee what a task thou hast Look on one side on the Lives of holy men among us such as was Mr. Dodd Mr. Paul Bayn Mr. William Fenner Mr. Arthur Hildersham Mr. Robert Bolton Mr. Greenham Mr. Hooker Dr. Sibbs Dr. Preston Dr. Stoughton Mr. Perkins with many hundreds more Besides blessed Bradford Glover Sanders Hooper and the rest that laid down their lives in the flames in testimony against Popery besides all the thousands that in other Nations have dyed by the Papists hands because they durst not sin against God and besides all the Learned holy Divines of other Nations and the millions of Godly Protestants there as also look upon all the godly that are now living men or women that live in most earnest seeking after God and serving him look on those about you enquire of others read the writings of holy Divines and then remember you cannot turn Papist till you have concluded that all these are damned and are utterly void of saving Grace and the Love

of these two servants of Christ that are thus reviled even as their Master was before them that was said to do Miracles by the power of the Devil As for Luther he was oft taken with a great pain in his breast about the mouth of the stomack and thought his Death when it came would be sudden which made him say Feri Domine feri clementer quia ipse paratus sum strike Lord strike mercifully for I am ready Having preached his last Sermon at Wittenberge Jan. 17. he took his journey the 23. to Count Mansfields Countrey whither he was called When he came thither he was grown so weak that they almost despaired of his life yet by the use of somentations he had so much ease as that he preached sometime and did other work from Jan. 29. to Febr. 17. The last day of his life though he was weak yet he sate at the table with them and at Supper his discourse was upon the Question Whether we shall know one another in Heaven which he affirmed and proved in that Adam knew Eve as soon as he saw her that she was flesh of his flesh and therefore much more shall we know one another in Heaven c. After Supper he withdrew himself as he used for private prayer but the pain of his breast increased on him When he had taken a medicine he lay down on a Couch and slept sweetly two hours and then went to his Chamber saying to those about him Pray God to preserve the Doctrine of the Gospel to us for the Pope and Council of Trent have strange Contrivances When he was laid down and had slept a while he awakened and found by the increase of his pain that he was near his End and spoke to God as followeth in their hearing O my heavenly Father the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the God of all Consolation I thank thee that thou hast revealed to me thy Son Jesus Christ in whom I have believed whom I have professed whom I have loved whom I have Celebrated or Honoured whom the Pope of Rome and the rest of the rabble of the ungodly do persecute and reproach I beseech thee O my Lord Jesus Christ receive my soul O my heavenly Father though I am taken from this life and though my body must now be laid down yet I know certainly that I shall abide with thee for ever and that none can take me out of thy hands Then he said So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Then he repeated part of the 68. Psalm and when he had drunk a medicine that was given him he said I go hence I now return my spirit unto God presently adding Father into thy hands I commend my spirit thou hast Redeemed me O God of Truth And so he dyed as if he were setting himself to sleep without any sign of further pain but when they saw him dying Dr. Jonas and Caelius cryed to him Reverend Father do you die constant through Christ in his doctrine which you have hitherto preached And he answered Yea and never spoke more When he was dead at Islebe Count Mansfield would have kept his body but the Duke of Saxony would not suffer him but caused it to be brought back to Wittenberge and there with great solemnity interred This is the true report in brief of Luthers Death delivered to the world by those that stood by him and were eye witnesses And yet these impudent Lying Papists have perswaded their followers that the Devils were seen dancing about him that when he should be buryed there was a horrible thunder and the body was taken away out of the Coffin by the Devil and a stink of Brimstone left behind with more such stuff as this which they have printed and which one would think the Father of Lies should be ashamed of And for Calvin not only those before mentioned but also Bolsecus Surius Prateolus Demochares Lindanus Sanctesius Cahierus and others publish to the world not only that he was an Epicure but a Sodomite and was burnt on the shoulder for Sodomie with a hot iron at Noviodunum where he was born Yea Lessius the Jesuite impudently calls Christ to witness that shall judge all men according to their works that he doth not devise these things of his own brain but from good authors and forty years currant fame And his Authors are these Papists Bolsecus Brigerus Stapleton Campian Duraeus Surius and Reginaldus Hath Hell any greater calumnies then these to fill the mouths or writings of men withall Reader I shall shew thee what credit these men are of by this instance As for the time when they say he was stigmatized for Sodomie it was when he was a Papist and therefore if it had been true it had been a greater dishonour to them then to us But it s a meer forgery of the Devil and a Fryar Hierom Bolseck a Fryar seemed to turn Protestant and coming to Geneva he began to preach the Pelagian doctrine there and openly contend against the Pastors in the Congregation and being confounded by Calvin the Magistrates imprisoned him and banished him for sedition Then he betakes himself to the neighbour Towns to play the same game there but the Magistrates of Bern also banish them out of their Countrey Whereupon he turned Papist again and when Calvin was dead he wrote all these abominable lies of him and all the rest with Schlusselburgius the Lutheran an enemy of Calvins do take up the report from this one Lying heretical Papist and so it becomes a currant fame with them as if it were as true as the Gospel Whereupon our writers call to them provoke them challenge them to search the Records at Noviodunum where they say the thing was done and prove that ever there was such a thing or else bear the open shame of Lyars But they can bring no proof but call on us to disprove it When the City are Papists and haters of Calvin But after all this as God would have it the Papist Dean of that City called Jacobus le Vasseur publisheth at Paris 1633. the Annals of their Cathedral Church and therein pouring out his hatred against Calvin and saying what he can against him doth yet out of their records clear him of all these accusations and lets the world know that there was never any such thing and that they had no crime at all against him but that he turned from the Papists and that the Major or chief Governour of the City went away with Calvin when he was forced to fly from his native Countrey He recites all the passages of Calvins life there but professeth that they had no more against him Thus God confounded the Lying Papists by one of themselves and the Records of that City where they said the thing was done And yet they believe one another and carry on the Lye to this day Mr.