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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.
I have elsewhere cited the words of Popes saying, that they are Vice-Christi and Vice-Dei, at large: And Pope Julius's words [we holding the place of the Great God, the Maker of all things and all Laws:] And Carol. Boverius's words, Consult. de. Rat. fidei, &c. to our late King, saying [Besides Christ the Invisible Head of the Church, there is a necessity, that we acknowledge another certain visible Head, subrogate to Christ and instituted of him, &c.] And Card. Bertrand's. words in Biblioth. Patrum, that saith, Almighty God had not been wise else, if he had not sent One only to Govern the world under him:] And Boverius reason [Christ was himself on Earth once a visible Monarch; And if the Church had need of a visible Monarch, it hath need of one still.] Christ said that it was necessary that he went away that the Paraclete might come, whom Tertullian calleth his Agent; But the Papists will not part with him so, but they will have his Body here still, and yet a Vice-Christ or visible Monarch also in his stead: See their own words, which I have cited at large in my Answer to Mr. Johnson.
I have elsewhere cited the words of Popes saying, that they are Vice-Christi and Vice-Dei, at large: And Pope Julius's words [we holding the place of the Great God, the Maker of all things and all Laws:] And Carol. Boverius's words, Consult. de. Rat. fidei, &c. to our late King, saying [Besides Christ the Invisible Head of the Church, there is a necessity, that we acknowledge another certain visible Head, subrogate to Christ and instituted of him, &c.] And Card. Betrand's. words in Biblioth. Patrum, that saith, Almighty God had not been wise else, if he had not sent One only to Govern the world under him:] And Boverius reason [Christ was himself on Earth once a visible Monarch; And if the Church had need of a visible Monarch, it hath need of one still.] Christ said that it was necessary that he went away that the Paraclete might come, whom Tertullian calleth his Agent; But the Papists will not part with him so, but they will have his Body here still, and yet a Vice-Christ or visible Monarch also in his stead: See their own words, which I have cited at large in my Answer to Mr. Johnson.
V. The pretended ground of this his Claim is, that St.