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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.
VIII. Also he claimeth the sole power of presiding in such Councils, and also of making their Decrees either valid by his approbation or null or invalid by his Reprobation, as he please: so that nothing that they Decree is of force but as it pleaseth him; whence we have distinct Catalogues of Approved and Reprobate Councils.
Yet no mortal man knoweth oftentimes how much of a Councils Acts and Decrees the Pope approveth. When Martin the fifth had consented to all done by the Council of Constance, the word [Conciliariter acta] seemed to the Council to mean [all that they did de facto as a ⟨p. 140⟩Council.] But the Popes ever since yet reject that Council on pretence that by [conciliariter] was meant all that de jure as a Council they might do. Gregory the first approved of the four first General Councils, receiving them as the four Gospels (and if his Predecessors did not, it was because their consent was not taken to be necessary, nor much sought.) And yet now Bellarmine raileth at the Council of Calcedon, and they tell us how much of it they receive and how much not. And so of many others.
Yet no mortal man knoweth oftentimes how much of a Councils Acts and Decrees the Pope approveth. When Martin the fifth had consented to all done by the Council of Constance, the word [Conciliariter acta] seemed to the Council to mean [all that they did de facto as a ⟨p. 140⟩Council.] But the Popes ever since yet reject that Council on pretense that by [conciliariter] was meant all that de jure as a Council they might do. Gregory the first approved of the four first General Councils, receiving them as the four Gospels (and if his Predecessors did not, it was because their consent was not taken to be necessary, nor much sought.) And yet now Bellarmine raileth at the Council of Calcedon, and they tell us how much of it they receive and how much not. And so of many others.