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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
Chapter 5: The true History of the Papacy, its original and growth.
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Notwithstanding this Councils decisions, the Contentions continue, and the Major part of the Bishops ⟨p. 96⟩went that way usually as the Emperors went: And so in the Reign of Constantius, and Valens, they most turned to the Arians, at least in words: And many General Councils (so called, of the Empire) the Arians had, in which they prevailed, and made Creeds for their turn as they at Nice had done against them, and brought Persecution on the Orthodox, silencing, and ejecting them, and scattering their Meetings as prohibited Conventicles, the Emperor himself sometime executing their dispersions and restraint: And among other Liberius the Bishop of Rome, against his Conscience Subscribed to them.
Notwithstanding this Councils decisions, the Contentions continue, and the Major part of the Bishops ⟨p. 96⟩went that way usually as the Emperours went: And so in the Reign of Constantius, and Valens, they most turned to the Arrians, at least in words: And many General Councils (so called, of the Empire) the Arrians had, in which they prevailed, and made Creeds for their turn as they at Nice had done against them, and brought Persecution on the Orthodox, silencing, and ejecting them, and scattering their Meetings as prohibited Conventicles, the Emperour himself sometime executing their dispersions and restraint: And among other Liberius the Bishop of Rome, against his Conscience Subscribed to them.
The Fathers at the Council of Nice did determine of the bounds of the Patriarchs of the Empire, which being at first but three, (Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch,) Jerusalem was after added, and after that Constantinople: For Constantine having now strengthened himself by the Christian Interest, and being further out of the danger of mutable Soldiers, than his Predecessors, did that which none of them was ever able to do, by removing the Imperial Seat from Rome to Constantinople, and so leaving that Famous City as naked and almost neglected: Whereby two great changes befell the Clergy, 1. The Bishop of Rome was left more absolute and uncontrolled in the West; 2. And the Bishop of Constantinople set up against him for the Primacy in the Empire: At first he claimed but an Equality, but afterward a Priority as Universal Bishop, because his Seat was the Imperial Seat.