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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.
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.
Act. 16. Binii pag. 134. [We following always the definitions of the holy Fathers and the Canons, and knowing those that have now been read of the 150 Bishops most beloved of God, that were congregated under the Emperor, of pious memory, Theodosius the Greater, in the Royal City of Constantinople, New Rome, have our selves also defined the same things, concerning the Privileges of the same most holy Church of Constantinople, New Rome: For to the Seat of old Rome, because of the Empire of that City, the Fathers consequently gave the Privileges. And the 150 Bishops most beloved of God, being moved with the same intentions, have given equal Privileges to the most holy Seat of New Rome; reasonably judging that the City adorned with the Empire and Senate, shall enjoy equal Privileges with old Regal Rome.
Act. 16. Binii pag. 134. [We following always the definitions of the holy Fathers and the Canons, and knowing those that have now been read of the 150 Bishops most beloved of God, that were congregated under the Emperour, of pious memory, Theodosius the Greater, in the Royal City of Constantinople, New Rome, have our selves also defined the same things, concerning the Priviledges of the same most holy Church of Constantinople, New Rome: For to the Seat of old Rome, because of the Empire of that City, the Fathers consequently gave the Priviledges. And the 150 Bishops most beloved of God, being moved with the same intentions, have given equal Priviledges to the most holy Seat of New Rome; reasonably judging that the City adorned with the Empire and Senate, shall enjoy equal Priviledges with old Regal Rome.
This Council was called by the Emperor Martian; and his Lay-Officers were called the Judges: And the Bishops, to show what they thought of Rome, cried out [They that contradict it are Nestorians: Let them that contradict it walk to Rome. Bin. p. 98.]
This Council was called by the Emperour Martian; and his Lay-Officers were called the Judges: And the Bishops, to shew what they thought of Rome, cryed out [They that contradict it are Nestorians: Let them that contradict it walk to Rome. Bin. p. 98.]