A26962:134
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.
I. That [the Prelatic Protestant is very angry with the Puritan, that he will not abstain from Flesh in Lent, on Fridays, Ember days, and Vigils of Saints—Though practically speaking no body takes less notice of them than himself—And the poor Puritan, because he will not solemnly invite the People to observe, what himself never intends to take the least notice of, must for this be silenced and suspended both from Office and Benefice.]
I. That [the Prelatick Protestant is very angry with the Puritan, that he will not abstain from Flesh in Lent, on Frydays, Emberdays, and Vigils of Saints—Though practically speaking no body takes less notice of them than himself—And the poor Puritan, because he will not solemnly invite the People to observe, what himself never intends to take the least notice of, must for this be silenced and suspended both from Office and Benefice.]
Answ. 1. Here you show what things they be that you turn Papist for: Is not eating Flesh on Fridays, Lent, or Vigils, a worthy matter to make another Religion of, or to prove men to be of differing Churches?
Answ. 1. Here you shew what things they be that you turn Papist for: Is not eating Flesh on Frydays, Lent, or Vigils, a worthy matter to make another Religion of, or to prove men to be of differing Churches?
2. I told you before, that the Puritans judgment is as Paul's, that such things should be left indifferent, or at least make no breach among us; by our judging or despising one another: And that neither the Pope, nor any men on Earth, have Authority to make Universal Laws for them to all the Christian World; and that there is no true Tradition of Apostolical Institution of them: But yet that such Fasts and Feasts as are appointed by true Authority of Prince or Pastors, not against the Laws of God, and such as shall be proved to be instituted by the Apostles, they will observe.