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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.
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!
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.]
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