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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.
And nothing is more evident in such History, than that the Emperors and not the Pope, were they that called divers of the first Councils.
IX. The Pope accordingly claimeth a supremacy above General Councils; that he may dissolve them; but they cannot question or depose him; though General Councils have decreed the contrary.
I recited Binnius words before, Vol. 2. p. 515. Pighius, Gretser's, Bellarmine's, and multitudes more might soon be produced to the same sense; The eighth General Council at Constantinople saith, Can. 21. that [None must compose any Accusations against the Pope] Vid. Bellarm. de concil. li. 2. c. 11.
Saith Pighius, Hier. Eccl. li. 6. [The Councils of Constance and Basil went about by a new trick and pernicious example to destroy the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and instead of it to bring in the domination of a promiscuous confused popular multitude; that is, to raise again Babylon it self; subjecting to themselves, or the Community of the Church (which they falsely pretended that they represented) the very Head and Prince of the whole Church: and him that is the Vicar of Christ himself in this his Kingdom; and this against Order and Nature,