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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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[ Earlier:311–326 of 699

:311p. 120–121

And the Eastern Empire being ⟨p. 121⟩first weakened and then overthrown, and the Western Nations kept weak, and in continual Wars against each other, there was none well able to resist his Pride, but one party still was ready to flatter him, partly to keep their own Clergy in Peace, and partly to have his help against their Enemies.

And the Eastern Empire being ⟨p. 121⟩first weakned and then overthrown, and the Western Nations kept weak, and in continual Wars against each other, there was none well able to resist his Pride, but one party still was ready to flatter him, partly to keep their own Clergy in Peace, and partly to have his help against their Enemies.

:312p. 121

And the grand Cheat by which they were commonly deceived was, that they looked more at his present possession of Primacy, than at the reason and right by which he claimed it; and so he that had been Prime Patriarch in one Empire, set up by the Prince, still claimed the right of the same places when the Empire was dissolved: as if the Subjects of the Kings of France, Spain, &c. must obey him, because they did so when they were the Subjects of Constantine, Theodosius, Valentinian &c. For by little and little he changed his Title mentioned in the Council of Calcedon, into a pretended Divine Right, and so they that would not have obeyed him as set up by Caesar and his Councils, obeyed him as if he had been set up by God: For the name of St. Peter and his Chair and Successor was used as the common blind.

And the grand Cheat by which they were commonly deceived was, that they lookt more at his present possession of Primacie, than at the reason and right by which he claimed it; and so he that had been Prime Patriarch in one Empire, set up by the Prince, still claimed the right of the same places when the Empire was dissolved: as if the Subjects of the Kings of France, Spain, &c. must obey him, because they did so when they were the Subjects of Constantine, Theodosius, Valentinian &c. For by little and little he changed his Title mentioned in the Council of Calcedon, into a pretended Divine Right, and so they that would not have obeyed him as set up by Caesar and his Councils, obeyed him as if he had been set up by God: For the name of St. Peter and his Chair and Successour was used as the common blind.

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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

:321p. 123–124¶1

1. But do not Councils oft determine things confessedly uncertain to the Church before; and yet out of utter uncertainty, it suddenly becometh an Article of Faith? For Instance, the great Council at Basil saith (Bin. sess. 30. p. 80.) [A hard Question hath been in divers parts ⟨p. 124⟩and before this Synod, about the Conception of the glorious Virgin Mary, and the beginning of her Sanctification: Some saying that the Virgin and her Soul was for some time, or instant of time, actually under Original Sin: Others on the contrary saying, that from the beginning of her Creation God loving her gave her Grace, by which preserving and freeing that blessed Person from the Original Spot—We having diligently looked into the Authorities and Reasons which for many years past have in public relation on both sides been alleged, before this holy Synod, and having seen many other things about it, and weighed them by mature consideration, do Define and Declare, That the Doctrine affirming That the glorious Virgin Mary the Mother of God, by the singular preventing and operating Grace of God, was never actually under Original Sin, but was ever free from all Original and actual Sin, and was holy and immaculate, is to be approved, held and embraced of all Catholics as godly and consonant to Church-worship, Catholic Faith, right Reason, and sacred Scripture: and that henceforth it shall be lawful for no Man to Preach or Teach the contrary.

1. But do not Councils oft determine things confessedly uncertain to the Church before; and yet out of utter uncertainty, it suddenly becometh an Article of Faith? For Instance, the great Council at Basil saith (Bin. sess. 30. p. 80.) [A hard Question hath been in divers parts ⟨p. 124⟩and before this Synod, about the Conception of the glorious Virgin Mary, and the beginning of her Sanctification: Some saying that the Virgin and her Soul was for some time, or instant of time, actually under Original Sin: Others on the contrary saying, that from the beginning of her Creation God loving her gave her Grace, by which preserving and freeing that blessed Person from the Original Spot—We having diligently lookt into the Authorities and Reasons which for many years past have in publick relation on both sides been alledged, before this holy Synod, and having seen many other things about it, and weighed them by mature consideration, do Define and Declare, That the Doctrine affirming That the glorious Virgin Mary the Mother of God, by the singular preventing and operating Grace of God, was never actually under Original Sin, but was ever free from all Original and actual Sin, and was holy and immaculate, is to be approved, held and embraced of all Catholicks as godly and consonant to Church-worship, Catholick Faith, right Reason, and sacred Scripture: and that henceforth it shall be lawful for no Man to Preach or Teach the contrary.