A26962:117
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 if by Prelatic Protestants you mean all such Protestants whose judgment is for Episcopacy, 1. You deceive, and I suppose are deceived, in your distinguishing these from Non-conformists: It's true that there are envious false-hearted Prelatists in the World, that make false names for their Brethren, to procure the belief of their false reports of them: And God will cut out the lying Tongue. But I will tell you the truth, whose malice soever is against it; there are Episcopal as well as Presbyterian and Independent Non-conformists now: Yea, divers that are against the late Wars of the Parliament, and ⟨p. 48⟩against the Covenant, and never took it, and some that have been Soldiers for the King, and suffered for him: Yea so considerable is the number of them that are Episcopal, that in 1660. when the King called them to treat in order to agreement, they offered him no other Form of Church Government, than A. Bishop Usher's Reduction, in which not a Pin of Honour, nor one Farthing of their Revenue was desired to be taken from Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons; but only the Parish Ministers enabled under them, to have done somewhat more that belongeth to their Office, instead of Lay-Chancellors, &c. Most Non-conformists of my acquaintance would be glad of the terms contained in the Kings Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs, where Bishops and Archbishops are left as rich and high as they were before: So far are Non-conformists [Episcopal Protestants.]
But if by Prelatick Protestants you mean all such Protestants whose judgment is for Episcopacy, 1. You deceive, and I suppose are deceived, in your distinguishing these from Non-conformists: It's true that there are envious false-hearted Prelatists in the World, that make false names for their Brethren, to procure the belief of their false reports of them: And God will cut out the lying Tongue. But I will tell you the truth, whose malice soever is against it; there are Episcopal as well as Presbyterian and Independent Non-conformists now: Yea, divers that are against the late Wars of the Parliament, and ⟨p. 48⟩against the Covenant, and never took it, and some that have been Souldiers for the King, and suffered for him: Yea so considerable is the number of them that are Episcopal, that in 1660. when the King called them to treat in order to agreement, they offered him no other Form of Church Government, than A. Bishop Usher's Reduction, in which not a Pin of Honour, nor one Farthing of their Revenue was desired to be taken from Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons; but only the Parish Ministers enabled under them, to have done somewhat more that belongeth to their Office, instead of Lay-Chancellors, &c. Most Non-conformists of my acquaintance would be glad of the terms contained in the Kings Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs, where Bishops and Archbishops are left as rich and high as they were before: So far are Non-conformists [Episcopal Protestants.]