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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.
Read the Articles on which the Council at Basil condemned and deposed Eugenius the Fourth as a perjured Wretch, an obstinate Heretic, and all the rest.
Read the Articles on which the Council at Basil condemned and deposed Eugenius the Fourth as a perjured Wreteh, an obstinate Heretick, and all the rest.
Read the Articles on which another Council deposed John 13. alias 12. And read the Lives of many more in their own Historians.
And what came the Church to when it had such Heads? when Baronius saith, ad an. 912. that [the face of the holy Roman Church was exceeding filthy: when the most potent whores did rule at Rome, by whose pleasure Seats were changed, Bishops were given, and which is a thing horrid to be heard, and not to be spoken, their Lovers were thrust into Peters Chair, being false Popes, who are not to be written in the Catalogue of the Roman Popes, but only for ⟨p. 116⟩the marking of such times: And what kind of Cardinals, Priests, and Deacons, think you, we must imagine, that these Monsters did choose, when nothing is so rooted in Nature as for every one to beget his like.] For near 150 years, saith Genebrard, about fifty Popes were rather Apostatical than Apostolical.]
And what came the Church to when it had such Heads? when Baronius saith, ad an. 912. that [the face of the holy Roman Church was exceeding filthy: when the most potent whores did rule at Rome, by whose pleasure Seats were changed, Bishops were given, and which is a thing horrid to be heard, and not to be spoken, their Lovers were thrust into Peters Chair, being false Popes, who are not to be written in the Catalogue of the Roman Popes, but only for