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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 5: The true History of the Papacy, its original and growth.

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:284p. 111

For that any (that is Legates) should be sent from the side of your Holiness we find not constituted by any Synod of the Fathers (it seems they never thought of a Divine right) because that which you sent us by our Fellow Bishop Faustinus as done by the Nicene Council—(they prove was false)—send not your Clergy Executors (or Agitators) to potent men: Do not yield to it, lest we seem to bring the Secular arrogancy into the Church of Christ, which preferreth the light of simplicity and day of humility for them that desire to see God: For of our Brother Faustinus (the Popes Legate) we are secure that the sa•• Brotherly love in your Holinesses honesty and moderation, can suffer him to stay no longer in Africa.]

:285p. 112

The Popes took this heinously from the Africans; that they should stop them in their ascent to the Universal Monarchy: So that Pope Boniface, Epist. ad Eulal. saith, Aurelius sometimes Bishop of Carthage, with his Colleagues, did begin by the Devils instigation to wax proud against the Church of Rome, in the days of our Predecessors Boniface and Celestine.] O how little do proud men instigated by the Devil know themselves, when they think that the Diabolical pride is in them that will not serve their pride!

:286p. 112

And Harding against Jewel, Art. 4. Sect. 19. saith [After the whole African Church had persevered in Schism, the space of twenty years, and had removed themselves from the obedience of the Apostolic Seat, being seduced by Aurelius Bishop of Carthage, &c.]

And Harding against Jewel, Art. 4. Sect. 19. saith [After the whole African Church had persevered in Schism, the space of twenty years, and had removed themselves from the obedience of the Apostolick Seat, being seduced by Aurelius Bishop of Carthage, &c.]

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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

Here note, 1. That so numerous were the Bishops in Africa, that one of their Provincial Councils had far more Bishops than the Council of Trent, or divers others called General. 2. That they were men of the most eminent learning and piety, and that had kept up Discipline above almost any Church in the Empire. S. Augustine was one that subscribed the foresaid Letter: and were such Men like to be seduced by Aurelius? 3. Note with what Impudency even such men as Harding yet pretend that St Augustine was for their Papal Claim, when yet he professeth him to be one of the Schismatics that cast off obedience to the Seat of Rome. 4. Note what good Company we have in our reproach of the same pretended Schism. 5. Note how shamelessly the Papists still tell us of all the Bishops of the Christian World being for them, and asking us, where was our Church before Luther, that is, a Society of Christians that obeyed not the Pope; when they confess that Augustine and all the African Church for twenty ⟨p. 113⟩years obeyed him not: (and alas, soon after the Vandals came and conquered them, and persecuted and destroyed those famous Bishops that did survive.)

Here note, 1. That so numerous were the Bishops in Africa, that one of their Provincial Councils had far more Bishops than the Council of Trent, or divers others called General. 2. That they were men of the most eminent learning and piety, and that had kept up Discipline above almost any Church in the Empire. S. Augustine was one that subscribed the foresaid Letter: and were such Men like to be seduced by Aurelius? 3. Note with what Impudencie even such men as Harding yet pretend that St Augustine was for their Papal Claim, when yet he professeth him to be one of the Schismaticks that cast off obedience to the Seat of Rome. 4. Note what good Company we have in our reproach of the same pretended Schism. 5. Note how shamelesly the Papists still tell us of all the Bishops of the Christian World being for them, and asking us, where was our Church before Luther, that is, a Society of Christians that obeyed not the Pope; when they confess that Augustine and all the African Church for twenty ⟨p. 113⟩years obeyed him not: (and alas, soon after the Vandals came and conquered them, and persecuted and destroyed those famous Bishops that did survive.)