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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
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.
Q. 3. Did the ancient Fathers and Catechists teach all those to the Catechumens before they Baptized them?
Q. 4. And were not those all Christians, and in the ⟨p. 11⟩true Church, and in a state of Life, whom the Apostles Baptized, without the profession of any such Belief?
Q. 5. What was the Creed, the Symbolum fidei used for, if not to distinguish the Faith of the Christian Church from Infidelity, Heresy, and all without? And if all the Decrees of Councils be as necessary to be the Symbol of Faith, why were they not all made up into a Creed? and why is the Creed differenced from them all to this day? And why do you not cause the Baptized to recite and profess all these Councils Decrees, but only the old Christian Creed?
Q. 5. What was the Creed, the Symbolum fidei used for, if not to distinguish the Faith of the Christian Church from Infidelity, Heresie, and all without? And if all the Decrees of Councils be as necessary to be the Symbol of Faith, why were they not all made up into a Creed? and why is the Creed differenced from them all to this day? And why do you not cause the Baptized to recite and profess all these Councils Decrees, but only the old Christian Creed?