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Naked popery, or, The naked falsehood of a book called The Catholic naked truth,…Naked popery, or, The naked falshood of a book called The Catholick naked truth,…
Naked popery, or, The naked falsehood of a book called The Catholic naked truth, or, The Puritan convert to apostolical Christianity, written by W.H. opening their fundamental error of unwritten tradition, and their unjust description of the Puritans, the prelatical Protestant, and the papist, and their differences, and better acquainting the ignorant of the same difference, especially what a Puritan and what a papist is / by Richard Baxter ...Naked popery, or, The naked falshood of a book called The Catholick naked truth, or, The Puritan convert to apostolical Christianity, written by W.H. opening their fundamental errour of unwritten tradition, and their unjust description of the Puritans, the prelatical Protestant, and the papist, and their differences, and better acquainting the ignorant of the same difference, especially what a Puritan and what a papist is / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for N. Simmons, 1677
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.
but to be Vanity as separated from God in our Hearts, and Enmity, or Mischief, as Competitors, or as against him. In a word, Faith working by Supreme Love and Obedience to God, and Brotherly Love to Man, by Honour to our Superiors, Justice to all; and by all the good that we can do in the World, and by Repentance for our Sins, patience in sufferings, and by a Heavenly Mind, and Life, is the Sum of their Religion; or plainlier as is said at first, The Gospel-Covenant as expounded in the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue, as the Summary of things to be believed, desired, and practised; and the holy Scriptures as the full and comprehensive Records of the Doctrine, Promises, and Laws of God, containing the Essentials, Integrals, and necessary Accidentals of Religion. This is the Christian Religion, and the Puritan in question is but the SERIOUS CHRISTIAN distinct from the HYPOCRITE, or dead Formalist.
but to be Vanity as separated from God in our Hearts, and Enmity, or Mischief, as Competitors, or as against him. In a word, Faith working by Supream Love and Obedience to God, and Brotherly Love to Man, by Honour to our Superiours, Justice to all; and by all the good that we can do in the World, and by Repentance for our Sins, patience in sufferings, and by a Heavenly Mind, and Life, is the Sum of their Religion; or plainlier as is said at first, The Gospel-Covenant as expounded in the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue, as the Summary of things to be believed, desired, and practised; and the holy Scriptures as the full and comprehensive Records of the Doctrine, Promises, and Laws of God, containing the Essentials, Integrals, and necessary Accidentals of Religion. This is the Christian Religion, and the Puritan in question is but the SERIOUS CHRISTIAN distinct from the HYPOCRITE, or dead Formalist.
But if you add Non-conformity to the sense of the Word, and to his Character; so I need not tell you what the Impositions are which some deny Conformity to, as to Oaths, New-Covenants, Subscriptions, Declarations, Practices, &c. which he protesteth that he would never deny Conformity to, if after his best enquiry he did not believe that God forbiddeth it: (As you may see at large in their Savoy Petition for Peace to the Bishops.) These two it seems you join together; and what their Objective Religion is, I have better told you, than you have