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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.
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.]
If such a General Council be not to be believed, farewell all the Papists Infallibility, Authority, Tradition, and Religion: If it be to be believed, the Pope is a Humane Creature, and not a Divine.
But Binius saith, that Rome receiveth not the Canons of this Council of Constantinople, which this confirmeth, but only their condemnation of Macedonius: And he saith [That every Council hath just so much strength and authority ⟨p. 102⟩as the Apostolic See bestoweth on it: For (saith he) unless this be admitted, no reason can be given why some Councils of greater numbers of Bishops were reprobated, and others of a smaller number confirmed,] Vol. 2. p. 515. And yet must we hear the noise of [all the Christian World, and all the Bishops, and General Councils, and the Tradition of our Fore-fathers, &c.] as against us, when all is but the Pope of Rome, and such as please him? and it is He and his Pleasers that refuse the most General Councils and Tradition? Away with this false deceitful talk.
But Binius saith, that Rome receiveth not the Canons of this Council of Constantinople, which this confirmeth, but only their condemnation of Macedonius: And he saith [That every Council hath just so much strength and authority