A26962:156
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.
VIII. Your eighth Instance is about praying for the dead: But whatever you say of the Rector of S. Martins in Oxford, there is no difference between the Puritans and the Prelatic Protestants in that point: You mistake the matter: It is another passage, or two or three at Burial, which the Puritan sticks at, viz. which pronounceth of every individual person in the Kingdom, Atheists, Infidels, Papists, and Impenitent Sinners that we bury, except only the Excommunicate, Unbaptized, and Self-murderers, that [God of his mercy hath taken to himself the Soul of this our dear Brother, out of the miseries of this sinful life, &c.]
VIII. Your eighth Instance is about praying for the dead: But whatever you say of the Rector of S. Martins in Oxford, there is no difference between the Puritans and the Prelatick Protestants in that point: You mistake the matter: It is another passage, or two or three at Burial, which the Puritan sticks at, viz. which pronounceth of every individual person in the Kingdom, Atheists, Infidels, Papists, and Impenitent Sinners that we bury, except only the Excommunicate, Unbaptized, and Selfmurderers, that [God of his mercy hath taken to himself the Soul of this our dear Brother, out of the miseries of this sinful life, &c.]
IX. Your last Instance indeed toucheth the quick of our Controversy with Rome: You say [The Prelatic Protestant wonders at the Puritan's Pride, that he will not submit his judgment in matters of Faith, to the determination of a Council of all the Reverend Bishops of the Land, his Majesty as Supreme Head and Governor presiding,] yet submit not [to the determination of a General Council of all the Learned Bishops of the Christian World, his Holiness the Pope as Supreme Pastor presiding, and believe as the Universal Church of Christ believeth: It's fitting, says the Conformist, that for Order sake in Christs Church, there should be in every Nation some Supreme Governors, to whose Directions in matters of Divine Worship, all should submit; else we shall have as many Christian Religions and ways of Worship, as there are Parishes, Families, or Persons. The Puritan replieth, It seems as rational that Christ should for the same Reasons of conserving union, decency, and order in his Church, appoint one Supreme Pastor over all Christians, dispersed in all the Nations of the World, whom all should obey in the vacancy of General Councils.]