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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 saith Gonzal. Rodericus in Godignus de rebus Abassin. l. 2. c. 18. p. 323. to the Emperors Mother, [I denied that any one is subject to Christ that is not subject to his Vicar.] But said the old Woman to him, [Neither I nor mine do deny obedience to S. Peter: We are in the same Faith now that we were in from the beginning: If that was not the right, why was there no one found in so many Ages and Generations that would warn us of our Error?] (See here what Tradition is, and whether the Papal Church and Charge was Universal.) The Jesuit answered, [The Pope of Rome who is Pastor of the whole Church of Christ, could not in the years that are by-past send Teachers into Abyssinia, because the Mahometans encompassed all, and had left no passage to them; but now the Maritime way to Ethiopia is open, they can do that which they could not do before.]
And saith Gonzal. Rodericus in Godignus de rebus Abassin. l. 2. c. 18. p. 323. to the Emperours Mother, [I denyed that any one is subject to Christ that is not subject to his Vicar.] But said the old Woman to him, [Neither I nor mine do deny obedience to S. Peter: We are in the same Faith now that we were in from the beginning: If that was not the right, why was there no one found in so many Ages and Generations that would warn us of our Errour?] (See here what Tradition is, and whether the Papal Church and Charge was Universal.) The Jesuite answered, [The Pope of Rome who is Pastor of the whole Church of Christ, could not in the years that are by-past send Teachers into Abassia, because the Mahometans incompassed all, and had left no passage to them; but now the Maritime way to Aethiopia is open, they can do that which they could not do before.]
So that it seemeth, 1. Christ hath made the Pope Governor of Countries that he cannot send to, and set the poor man an impossible task. 2. He hath made it necessary to salvation to whole Kingdoms to believe in a Pope that they could never hear from; nor whether there were such a Man or City in the world. 3. Or else ⟨p. 151⟩their Faith groweth new as the Sea passage is open. And woe to them if their new acquaintance with the Pope make all, all, all his Laws necessary to them, which they might have been saved without before. How much happier were they when they never heard of his Name?