A26962:436
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.
If we dispute with a Papist, and cite the Scriptures, they ask us presently, who shall be Judge of the meaning of them? As if the Pope would decide all: And yet to this day he will neither write any deciding Commentary on the Bible, nor on one Book of it; nor end the Controversies among his own Commentators. Nor will he end any of the fore-mentioned Controversies in Morality, of great importance.
XXIX. He sweareth all his Clergy never to take or interpret Scripture, but according to the unanimous sense of the Fathers, (see the Trent Oath:) when yet the Fathers do not unanimously expound the Scripture, nor any one Book of it.
XXIX. He sweareth all his Clergie never to take or interpret Scripture, but according to the unanimous sense of the Fathers, (see the Trent Oath:) when yet the Fathers do not unanimously expound the Scripture, nor any one Book of it.
And few Priests know what the Fathers are unanimous in, nor can do, unless they read them all; which by this Oath they seem obliged to do. Was not Greg. Nazianz. one of the Fathers? who saith, Orat. 18. [I would there were no Presidency, nor Prerogative of place, and tyrannical Privileges; that so we might be known only by Virtue, (or deserts:) But now this Right side and Left side, and Middle and Lower Degree, and Presidency and Concomitancy, have begot us many contentions to no purpose, and have driven many into the Ditch, and have led them away to the Region of Goats.] Is not this Heresy, or worse, with you?
And few Priests know what the Fathers are unanimous in, nor can do, unless they read them all; which by this Oath they seem obliged to do. Was not Greg. Nazianz. one of the Fathers? who saith, Orat. 18. [I would there were no Presidency, nor Prerogative of place, and tyrannical Priviledges; that so we might be known only by Vertue, (or deserts:) But now this Right side and Left side, and Middle and Lower Degree, and Presidency and Concomitancy, have begot us many contentions to no purpose, and have driven many into the Ditch, and have led them away to the Region of Goats.] Is not this Heresie, or worse, with you?