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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.
2. And remember that you your self here confess the scandals of some of your Romish Party, and what carnal profane ones they are. Had you not confessed it, I would have desired you to read two Books, 1. Josep. Acosta, of the wicked slothful Priests in the Indies, as ⟨p. 50⟩the great hindrance of their Conversion. 2. Stephanus his World of Wonders, taken most out of the Book of the Queen of Navarre, of the horrid Villainies of your Priests.
2. And remember that you your self here confess the scandals of some of your Romish Party, and what carnal prophane ones they are. Had you not confessed it, I would have desired you to read two Books, 1. Josep. Acosta, of the wicked slothful Priests in the Indies, as ⟨p. 50⟩the great hindrance of their Conversion. 2. Stephanus his World of Wonders, taken most out of the Book of the Queen of Navarre, of the horrid Villanies of your Priests.
And one thing I cannot disregard: I marvel not if the Papists be most bad in Spain, France, Italy, &c. or the Lutherans in Denmark, Saxony, or Sweden; or the Calvinists in Holland; or the Prelatists and Conformists in England; because the most (who are commonly the worst) will be of the stronger side. But that Greeks should be ungodly in Turkey, or Protestants in France, or Papists in England, where they are singular, and under the discountenance of the Times, and most hold their Religion with some self-denial, this seemeth to me a more grievous thing. And if it prove true, that even in England, where you make the World believe that you have suffered grievously, your Followers are too often found mere Formalists, living in Swearing, Drinking, Lying, Uncleanness, or some of these, what shall we think of such a Religion as this, as in a Land of uprightness would teach men to do unjustly? I wonder not what should make a Drunkard, Fornicator, or other debauched Sinner to be a Papist in France, Spain, or Italy: But what should make such a one be a Papist in England, unless his Religion favour sensuality, or else he think that it will yet prove the upper side, I cannot easily conjecture.