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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.
1. WE are not to describe the Bishop of Rome as he was at the beginning, but as in that Stature to which he is since grown up. And so unmeasurable a Potentate must be described to you but by parts, and inadequate Conceptions; And I will no more undertake to enumerate all, than to Name all the Kingdoms known and unknown to us Europeans which he claimeth the Government of. But I remember who it was that showed Christ all the Kingdoms of the world, and said, All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me, Math. 4. 9. Or as Luk. 4. 6. All this Power will I give thee and the Glory of them, for that is delivered to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.
1. WE are not to describe the Bishop of Rome as he was at the beginning, but as in that Stature to which he is since grown up. And so unmeasurable a Potentate must be described to you but by parts, and inadequate Conceptions; And I will no more undertake to enumerate all, than to Name all the Kingdoms known and unknown to us Europeans which he claimeth the Government of. But I remember who it was that shewed Christ all the Kingdoms of the world, and said, All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me, Math. 4. 9. Or as Luk. 4. 6. All this Power will I give thee and the Glory of them, for that is delivered to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.
I. The Pope of Rome is an Usurper, who from the lawful Episcopacy of one particular Church aspired to be a Bishop over many Churches and Bishops, and a Metropolitan, and thence to be a Patriarch, and the first Patriarch ⟨p. 134⟩in the Roman Empire in order of Dignity, and entered a Contest for the Primacy with his Competitor of Constantinople, which is not ended to this day: And next claimed an Universal Government in the Empire as well as a Primacy; And also the Government of such Neighbour Churches as had once been in the Empire, or had been lately converted by any of his Clergy; And lastly being made a King of Rome or Secular Prince in Italy, he also claimed a Monarchy or Government over all the world under the name of Ecclesiastical.]