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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 ...

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for N. Simmons, 1677

196, [8] p. · 61k words · Wing B1315 · ESTC R13884

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Chapter 4: His own false Description of Papists.

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:205p. 85–86

[It seemeth to be the common opinion of the Schools and Doctors at this day, that the Laity erring with their Teachers, ⟨p. 86⟩or Pastors, are altogether excused from all fault: Yea, by erring thus many ways materially they merit for the Act of Christian Obedience which they owe, their Teachers, as Valentia saith To. 3. Disp. 1. q. 2. p. 5. and others with Angles, Vas. quez. &c.]

[It seemeth to be the common opinion of the Schools and Doctors at this day, that the Laity erring with their Teachers, ⟨p. 86⟩or Pastors, are altogether excused from all fault: Yea, by erring thus many wayes materially they merit for the Act of Christian Obedience which they owe, their Teachers, as Valentia saith To. 3. Disp. 1. q. 2. p. 5. and others with Angles, Vas. quez. &c.]

:206p. 86

And if this be true, what Prince, Lord, or any other Lay-man, that would be out of all danger of Sin and Hell, would not be a Papist, and be sure to choose a Priest that is ignorant enough to take Perjury, Drunkenness, Gluttony, Adultery, Fornication, Persecution, Oppression for no Sin, and then he may be sure that it's none to him, but he meriteth by obeying him that will persuade him to it?

And if this be true, what Prince, Lord, or any other Lay-man, that would be out of all danger of Sin and Hell, would not be a Papist, and be sure to chuse a Priest that is ignorant enough to take Perjury, Drunkenness, Gluttony, Adultery, Fornication, Persecution, Opression for no Sin, and then he may be sure that it's none to him, but he meriteth by obeying him that will perswade him to it?

:207p. 86

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Title as printed: 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 ...
Author: Richard Baxter 1615–1691
Place: London
Bookseller: N. Simmons
Year: 1677
Size: 196, [8] p.
Words: 60,859
Catalogue: Wing B1315 · ESTC R13884
Text: EEBO-TCP A26962

Passages: 699
Sections: 22

:218p. 88–89

Ans. Now I perceive you are over bold, and do too ⟨p. 89⟩hardly blush, when you have the face to bring in such an instance, and by the inserting of a word or two of your own, to dare to wash off from your Religion the blot of Perfidiousness and Rebellion, when it is part of the Decrees of your approved General Council. The Prevaricator wrongeth you, 1. By making [not of his Religion] to be all that's necessary to free you from allegiance. 2. By putting in [or any other Oath for a piece of Money:] I have not yet found that the Pope undertaketh to dispense with a man that will swear to believe the Roman Church, or the rest in Pope Pius his Trent Oath, nor yet with the Vow of Baptism, if seconded by an Oath. 3. By saying only [If his Prince persecute him;] for the Doctors say that he must be first excommunicate, or a Heretic at least, and some say he must have the Pope's Order before he may kill a King; and the Council only speaketh of Deposing, and not of killing. 4. And the Prevaricator too rashly promised [Canonizing:] He that murdered one of the French Kings, was but praised in an Oration by the Pope, (proved by many) but not Canonized: Garnet was not every one.

Ans. Now I perceive you are over bold, and do too ⟨p. 89⟩hardly blush, when you have the face to bring in such an instance, and by the inserting of a word or two of your own, to dare to wash off from your Religion the blot of Perfidiousness and Rebellion, when it is part of the Decrees of your approved General Council. The Prevaricator wrongeth you, 1. By making [not of his Religion] to be all that's necessary to free you from allegiance. 2. By putting in [or any other Oath for a piece of Money:] I have not yet found that the Pope undertaketh to dispense with a man that will swear to believe the Roman Church, or the rest in Pope Pius his Trent Oath, nor yet with the Vow of Baptism, if seconded by an Oath. 3. By saying only [If his Prince persecute him;] for the Doctors say that he must be first excommunicate, or a Heretick at least, and some say he must have the Pope's Order before he may kill a King; and the Council only speaketh of Deposing, and not of killing. 4. And the Prevaricator too rashly promised [Canonizing:] He that murdered one of the French Kings, was but praised in an Oration by the Pope, (proved by many) but not Canonized: Garnet was not every one.