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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.
X. But I must tell you, that the Puritans, who are accused ⟨p. 71⟩of disorder and confusion, do many of them loath disorder and confusion, even in words and doctrine. And they distinguish here between the Churches keeping and teaching the Christian Faith, and the Churches judging in matters of Faith. The first they are wholly for: We must receive our Faith from our Teachers, and oportet discentem fide humana credere. But if by Judging you mean strictly a Decisive judgment, in which we must rest, which way soever the sentence pass, as if the Church might not only teach us the truth of our Religion, but judge in partem utramlibet, whether it be true or not, the Puritans own no such power in the Church, nor will so submit their Faith to the judgment of it. They believe that Pastors in Councils have power to judge that there is a God, Almighty, &c. a Christ, a Holy Ghost, that Christ dyed, rose, &c. that the Scripture is true, that there is an absolute necessity of Holiness, that there is a Resurrection and Life everlasting, that Gods Commandments must be kept, and sin not committed, &c. But that no Council hath power to judge that there is no God, no Christ, or the contrary to any one of these, or any other revealed Truth of God.
XI. And I must not let pass your Schismatical inference, that [else there should be as many Religions and ways of worship as Parishes or persons] if some supreme Governor determined not in matters of worship: For 1. It was not so, when no Supreme Governor determined, on earth: 2. But either you mean the Substantials of Gods Worship or the Circumstantials: In the first as faith is not to be got by force, so neither is Godliness, but yet Governors should here do their best: But as to the other we abhor the Conceit, that there are as many Religions, as there is difference about vestures, gestures, days and meats:
XI. And I must not let pass your Schismatical inference, that [else there should be as many Religions and ways of worship as Parishes or persons] if some supreme Governour determined not in matters of worship: For 1. It was not so, when no Supreme Governour determined, on earth: 2. But either you mean the Substantials of Gods Worship or the Circumstantials: In the first as faith is not to be got by force, so neither is Godliness, but yet Governours should here do their best: But as to the other we abhor the Conceit, that there are as many Religions, as there is difference about vestures, gestures, days and meats: