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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.
But perhaps you take the word Religion in the Roman sense, as you confine it to those that you call [the Religious] (as if you took the people of your Church to be irreligious:) And so you have indeed too many Religious, however they come to make one Church: The Religion of the Carthusians is one, and of the Benedictines another, and of the Franciscans another; I cannot name them all: One eateth Herbs and Fish, and another eateth Flesh seldom, another often; one weareth one habit, and another weareth another; one Religion hath one Rule of Life, and another hath another. But with us there is but one Religion (which is the Christian) though one man wear cloth and another stuff, one white and another black, one eat Flesh and another Fish, and another can seldom get either; though one wear his Hair long and another short, though one be old and another be young, yet we are all of one Religion: Yea, though one preach and pray in English, another in Welsh, another in French, and another in Dutch, yet we take not these to be so many Religions: No nor though one think Free praying fitter for Ministers than an imposed Form, and another think an imposed Form only fit, and a third think as the mere Puritan, that both having their Conveniences and Inconveniences, there should be seasons for both.
But perhaps you take the word Religion in the Romane sense, as you confine it to those that you call [the Religious] (as if you took the people of your Church to be irreligious:) And so you have indeed too many Religious, however they come to make one Church: The Religion of the Carthusians is one, and of the Benedictines another, and of the Franciscans another; I cannot name them all: One eateth Herbs and Fish, and another eateth Flesh seldom, another often; one weareth one habit, and another weareth another; one Religion hath one Rule of Life, and another hath another. But with us there is but one Religion (which is the Christian) though one man wear cloth and another stuffe, one white and another black, one eat Flesh and another Fish, and another can seldom get either; though one wear his Hair long and another short, though one be old and another be young, yet we are all of one Religion: Yea, though one preach and pray in English, another in Welch, another in French, and another in Dutch, yet we take not these to be so many Religions: No nor though one think Free praying fitter for Ministers than an imposed Form, and another think an imposed Form only fit, and a third think as the meer Puritan, that both having their Conveniences and Inconveniences, there should be seasons for both.