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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.
which though some Clauses were since added, and though the Churches tied not themselves just to the very same words, (as we find by the various forms of this Creed in Irenaeus, Tertullian, Marcellus's in Epiphanius, Ruffinus, &c.) yet for the substance and sense, and most of the very words, all Churches used the same. And when the Council of Nice taught them the way of making new Creeds, (which Hilary Pictav. so sadly complaineth of,) yet still the matter of the old Creed was the substance of them all. And the Eastern Creed, which was used before the Nicene Council, (for that such a one there was, the most Learned Antiquaries give us sufficient proof,) was but the same in ⟨p. 7⟩sense as the Western, even the Exposition of the Baptismal Faith; and this the Baptized did profess before Baptism: And the work of Catechists was to teach this and the sense of it to the Catechumens. And that [He that believeth and is baptized (that is, truly devoted to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, by the Baptismal Covenant) shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned,] is by Christ himself made the sum of his Gospel, or Law of Grace.
which though some Clauses were since added, and though the Churches tyed not themselves just to the very same words, (as we find by the various forms of this Creed in Irenaeus, Tertullian, Marcellus's in Epiphanius, Ruffinus, &c.) yet for the substance and sense, and most of the very words, all Churches used the same. And when the Council of Nice taught them the way of making new Creeds, (which Hilary Pictav. so sadly complaineth of,) yet still the matter of the old Creed was the substance of them all. And the Eastern Creed, which was used before the Nicene Council, (for that such a one there was, the most Learned Antiquaries give us sufficient proof,) was but the same in ⟨p. 7⟩sense as the Western, even the Exposition of the Baptismal Faith; and this the Baptized did profess before Baptism: And the work of Catechists was to teach this and the sense of it to the Catechumens. And that [He that believeth and is baptized (that is, truly devoted to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, by the Baptismal Covenant) shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned,] is by Christ himself made the sum of his Gospel, or Law of Grace.