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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.
If you see Latin Grammarians reviling one another, about the spelling or pronunciation of a word or two, and critically contending with Varro, Gellius, &c. which is the right, when a man that never knew a word of Latin but Welsh or Irish, never strove about such Questions in his life; which of these will you think have more ⟨p. 129⟩agreement in their Language? I would say that those men that disagree but about the pronunciation of a few words are very much agreed, in comparison of a Barbarian, that agreeth not with them in a Sentence or a Word. Even the old Schoolmen were in Language more agreed with Erasmus, Faber, Hutten, and other Critical Grammarians that derided them, than any illiterate man was with any of them. All Gruterus his Volumes of Grammatical Controversies, show not so much distance in Language, as the peaceable silence of an unlearned man doth.
If you see Latine Grammarians reviling one another, about the spelling or pronunciation of a word or two, and critically contending with Varro, Gellius, &c. which is the right, when a man that never knew a word of Latine but Welch or Irish, never strove about such Questions in his life; which of these will you think have more ⟨p. 129⟩agreement in their Language? I would say that those men that disagree but about the pronunciation of a few words are very much agreed, in comparison of a Barbarian, that agreeth not with them in a Sentence or a Word. Even the old Schoolmen were in Language more agreed with Erasmus, Faber, Hutten, and other Critical Grammarians that derided them, than any illiterate man was with any of them. All Gruterus his Volumes of Grammatical Controversies, shew not so much distance in Language, as the peaceable silence of an unlearned man doth.
And no one strives much about that which he doth not much care for: Countrymen can contemptuously laugh at Logical Disputes or Criticisms. Horses or Oxen will not strive with us for our Gold or Jewels, Clothes or Food, as we do with one another; and yet they are not so like us in the estimation of such things, as we are to one another.