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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.
Answ. I know of no difference between the Prelatist and the Puritan about Confession or Absolution. Dr. John Reynolds a true Puritan, received Absolution before he dyed: Mere Puritans believe that it is a duty to Confess our sins to men. 1. In Case of such injury to any as must have a Confession towards the injured persons Satisfaction: and forgiveness. 2. In Case of such difficulty about either the nature of the sin, or Consequent dangers or duties, as ⟨p. 62⟩make a particular Guide necessary, who cannot resolve our doubts till he know the Case. 3. In Case that the Conscience be so burdened with the sin, as that the sinner cannot by other means find ease, till he have disburdened himself by such Confession. 4. In Case it be necessary to heal any scandal given to others; It is a very great duty for drunkards, fornicators, deceivers, and such others to go to their Companions, and lament their sin, and persuade them no more to do as they have done: And if required by the Pastors to take public shame before the Congregation, and acknowledge that the doctrine of Christ never countenanced them in any such sin, that Religion and the Church may not bear the reproach of their delinquency. And to beg the prayers of the Congregation for their pardon, and that the Pastor by virtue of his office will pronounce it.
Answ. I know of no difference between the Prelatist and the Puritan about Confession or Absolution. Dr. John Reynolds a true Puritan, received Absolution before he dyed: Meer Puritans believe that it is a duty to Confess our sins to men. 1. In Case of such injury to any as must have a Confession towards the injured persons Satisfaction: and forgiveness. 2. In Case of such difficulty about either the nature of the sin, or Consequent dangers or dutyes, as ⟨p. 62⟩make a particular Guide necessary, who cannot resolve our doubts till he know the Case. 3. In Case that the Conscience be so burdened with the sin, as that the sinner cannot by other means find ease, till he have disburdened himself by such Confession. 4. In Case it be necessary to heal any scandal given to others; It is a very great duty for drunkards, fornicators, deceivers, and such others to go to their Companions, and lament their sin, and perswade them no more to do as they have done: And if required by the Pastors to take publick shame before the Congregation, and acknowledg that the doctrine of Christ never countenanced them in any such sin, that Religion and the Church may not bear the reproach of their delinquency. And to beg the prayers of the Congregation for their pardon, and that the Pastor by virtue of his office will pronounce it.