A26962:184
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.
I my self have enumerated many of the things which we take for Popery, and not to be defended, in my Key for Catholics, and in my Safe Religion, and in One Sheet against Popery, almost twenty years ago; and since then in my [Full and easy satisfaction which is the true Religion,] and in my [Certainty of Christianity without Popery.] And you have given no answer to any one of them that I ever heard of: But you can better dispute, it seems, with your Relations, and with the Women and Country-Labourers, or Tradesmen, that never use to speak in that strictness of words as shall prevent the Cavils of a studied Sophister.
I my self have enumerated many of the things which we take for Popery, and not to be defended, in my Key for Catholicks, and in my Safe Religion, and in One Sheet against Popery, almost twenty years ago; and since then in my [Full and easie satisfaction which is the true Religion,] and in my [Certainty of Christianity without Popery.] And you have given no answer to any one of them that I ever heard of: But you can better dispute, it seems, with your Relations, and with the Women and Country-Labourers, or Tradesmen, that never use to speak in that stictness of words as shall prevent the Cavils of a studied Sophister.
4. As for the A. B. of York, I am almost a Stranger to him, and more to his Book, which I never saw: But two things I can say, 1. That we are no more obliged to justify his words, than you to justify the words of any one of your Doctors. 2. That no man is so fit to answer for him as he is for himself: Because no man knoweth so ⟨p. 79⟩well in what sense he took the word [Papist.] I suppose you know that Grotius, who persuadeth us all to an obedient Union with your Church, under the Popes Government according to the Canons, owning the Decrees of all the Councils, even that of Trent, yet for all this doth speak against Papists: But he tells you that by Papists he meaneth those Flatterers of the Pope, who approve of all that he saith or doth. And that it was not the Government or Doctrine of that Church that was to have been reformed, but the Opinions of some Schoolmen, and the excesses, and ill lives of many of the Clergy. Now could not Grotius easily have produced such Papists as these, as having said as gross things as you recite?