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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.
And now Sir give me leave patiently to ask you these two Questions: 1. Why would you by temerity go about to deceive your Relations, and other Readers, by talking to them against that which you did not understand? Even then, when you blame others as dealing so by the Papists? And why do you dishonour your own Relations so, as to make so bad a Description of them? Are they such as have no Love to God as God, no delight in Holiness, no Heavenly Minds? nothing almost but fear and its effects? Have they still the Flames of Concupiscence, and greedy desires of Money and the things of this Life, &c. If it be not so, you should not have told the World so of them: If it be so, I am sorry for them: I suppose it is contrary to their profest Religion; and you may have the greater hopes to make them Papists?
II. What wonder is it that you that were no better a Puritan than you describe, are turned Papist? You that profess you were a Puritan, must needs be judged to tell us what a one you were your self, when you tell us what they are? Alas poor Man! How came you to be so false to your own Profession, against your Baptismal Vows, as to keep so much of the World at your Heart, in greedy desires after Money, and to have no more Love to God and Man? no more Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost? Could you think that a Man could be saved without Love and good works? Were you deluded by such Antinomian conceits as you describe, and took that for Puritanism? How else did you quiet your ⟨p. 44⟩Conscience in such a state of Hypocrisy? If God and Holiness had not your chief Love (as well as Fear) you were but an Hypocrite.
II. What wonder is it that you that were no better a Puritan than you describe, are turned Papist? You that profess you were a Puritan, must needs be judged to tell us what a one you were your self, when you tell us what they are? Alas poor Man! How came you to be so false to your own Profession, against your Baptismal Vows, as to keep so much of the World at your Heart, in greedy desires after Money, and to have no more Love to God and Man? no more Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost? Could you think that a Man could be saved without Love and good works? Were you deluded by such Antinomian conceits as you describe, and took that for Puritanisme? How else did you quiet your