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,…

But, Sir, when you say, pag. 6. [An Imputative holy man is a mere Christmas Mummer;] And after your jesting with the Boys and Girls, and the Cobblers and Botchers Regal Attire, and the Daw and her fine Feathers, you conclude [such will be the sad Lot of merely Imputative Saints, who to themselves and their Brethren seem very fine in the extrinsical Righteousness of Christ, put on by their fantastical Faith, whilst God and his Angels under all this conceited assumed Bravery see a lascivious, wanton, covetous Miser.] I must crave leave to call upon your Conscience, to judge whether a man that professeth that while he seemed a Puritan he was but an unholy, lascivious, wanton, and covetous miser, and since his turning Papist tells the World in Print, that he is now a most false calumniator, be a fit person to invite his Relations to such a pitiful change, to save their Souls? While you talked but of [Imputative Justice] some mens ambiguous words gave you an excuse: For some Protestants think that nothing should be called Justifying Righteousness, which is not sinless and perfect: But this is but a Controversy about a Word or Name of Righteousness. But when you here pretend, that they are for merely Imputed Holiness, I must say that I remember not that ever I read a more impudent Slander: And he that will dwell in Gods holy Hill must not receive a false Report, especially in despite of the fullest evidence that man can desire: Are not our Booksellers Shops full of Books for the necessity of personal Holiness? and that none can be saved but Saints? Is it not one of our dislikes of your Way, that Saints must be made rare Canonized Persons, when all Christians hold, that without Holiness none shall see God? When almost all the Sermons that ever I heard […] by any man of sense in my life profest this, and almost ⟨p. 56⟩all our Books are on this very subject, who would have thought that a man on earth could have been found, that would deny it in the open face of the Sun? Yea, one that saith he was a Puritan, and an University Student? Even when the poor Puritans are ruined, and hunted about, and cast into Goals, because they dare not give over preaching the necessity of Personal Holiness to salvation (for that is the most of all their Sermons that ever I heard) dare you stand forth with such an accusation as this? as if they held no Holiness necessary but Imputative?

But, Sir, when you say, pag. 6. [An Imputative holy man is a meer Christmas Mummer;] And after your jeasting with the Boys and Girls, and the Coblers and Botchers Regal Attire, and the Daw and her fine Feathers, you conclude [such will be the sad Lot of meerly Imputative Saints, who to themselves and their Brethren seem very fine in the extrinsical Righteousness of Christ, put on by their phantastical Faith, whilst God and his Angels under all this conceited assumed Bravery see a lascivious, wanton, covetous Miser.] I must crave leave to call upon your Conscience, to judge whether a man that professeth that while he seemed a Puritan he was but an unholy, lascivious, wanton, and covetous miser, and since his turning Papist tells the World in Print, that he is now a most false calumniator, be a fit person to invite his Relations to such a pitiful change, to save their Souls? While you talkt but of [Imputative Justice] some mens ambiguous words gave you an excuse: For some Protestants think that nothing should be called Justifying Righteousness, which is not sinless and perfect: But this is but a Controversie about a Word or Name of Righteousness. But when you here pretend, that they are for meerly Imputed Holiness, I must say that I remember not that ever I read a more impudent Slander: And he that will dwell in Gods holy Hill must not receive a false Report, especially in despight of the fullest evidence that man can desire: Are not our Booksellers Shops full of Books for the necessity of personal Holiness? and that none can be saved but Saints? Is it not one of our dislikes of your Way, that Saints must be made rare Canonized Persons, when all Christians hold, that without Holiness none shall see God? When almost all the Sermons that ever I heard by any man of sense in my life profest this, and almost