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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.
V. The pretended ground of this his Claim is, that St. ⟨p. 137⟩Peter received this power from Christ, and that St. Peter was Bishop last at Rome, and that the Pope succeedeth him in his Bishopric, and Power.
V. The pretended ground of this his Claim is, that St. ⟨p. 137⟩Peter received this power from Christ, and that St. Peter was Bishop last at Rome, and that the Pope succeedeth him in his Bishoprick, and Power.
This is professed commonly by them.
But 1. It is false that St. Peter received any such Power from Christ, as to be the Governor of all the rest of the Apostles and Christians in the World: He never exercised or claimed such a Government, but in cases of Controversy Act. 15. and Gal. 2, &c. He dealeth but on equal terms with the rest. And they that said I am of Cephas, are as well rebuked as they that said, I am of Paul.] And 1 Cor. 12. 28, 29, &c. Apostles are said to be but chief Members of the Church, and Christ the only Head: And when the Disciples strove who should be the greatest, Christ giveth it not to Peter, but forbideth it to them all: And Peter himself as a fellow Elder exhorteth all Elders to oversee and feed the Flock, not as Lords over the Heritage, &c. and never claimeth a Sovereignty to himself. No word mentioneth any Power that St. Peter had greater than his Apostleship: And Bellarmine professeth that the Pope hath not his power as succeeding him in his Apostleship, but as an ordinary Pastor over the whole Church.