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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 ...

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for N. Simmons, 1677

196, [8] p. · 61k words · Wing B1315 · ESTC R13884

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Chapter 4: What the Pope is.

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:439p. 155

The second part needs no proof: For the first, the elder Popes oft assert it; And the School-men in their Prologue to the Sentences (Scotus, Durandus and many others:) But when Reformers confuted them by Scripture, they found that would not serve their turn, (as Micaiah of Ahab, it prophesied not good of them but evil.) And since then, they cry up the Church and Tradition, and depress the sufficiency of Scripture.

The second part needs no proof: For the first, the elder Popes oft assert it; And the School-men in their Prologue to the Sentences (Scotus, Durandus and many others:) But when Reformers confuted them by Scripture, they found that would not serve their turn, (as Micaiah of Ahab, it prophesyed not good of them but evil.) And since then, they cry up the Church and Tradition, and depress the sufficiency of Scripture.

:440p. 155

Even Card. Richelieu pag. 38. confesseth [As for us, we assert no other Rule but Scripture, neither of another sort, nor total: yea we say that it is the whole Rule of our salvation, and that on a double account: both because it containeth immediately and formally the sum of our salvation; that is, all the Articles that are necessary to mans salvation, by necessity of means; and because it mediately containeth what ever we are bound to believe, as it sends us to the Church to be instructed by her, of whose infallibility it certainly confirmeth us.] Here the sum of our Religion is granted.

Even Card. Richlieu pag. 38. confesseth [As for us, we assert no other Rule but Scripture, neither of another sort, nor total: yea we say that it is the whole Rule of our salvation, and that on a double account: both because it containeth immediately and formally the sum of our salvation; that is, all the Articles that are necessary to mans salvation, by necessity of means; and because it mediately containeth what ever we are bound to believe, as it sends us to the Church to be instructed by her, of whose infallibility it certainly confirmeth us.] Here the sum of our Religion is granted.

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Title as printed: 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 ...
Author: Richard Baxter 1615–1691
Place: London
Bookseller: N. Simmons
Year: 1677
Size: 196, [8] p.
Words: 60,859
Catalogue: Wing B1315 · ESTC R13884
Text: EEBO-TCP A26962

Passages: 699
Sections: 22

:444p. 156–157

And those Canonized Saints that have been most credibly famed for the greatest Miracles, have born their ⟨p. 157⟩Testimony against Popery, and therefore Popery was not confirmed by them. For instance, St. Martin is by his Disciple and Friend Sulpitius Severus affirmed to have done more Miracles than I have ever credibly read done by any since the Apostles: I scarce except Gregory Neocaesar: And yet, whereas the Papal Councils give high privileges, of pardon, &c. to those that will take the Cross to kill the Waldenses, and compel Princes to it, and uphold their Kingdom by such means, St. Martin separated to the death from the Synods and Bishops about him, for seeking the Magistrates Sword to be drawn against even Priscillian Gnostics, and he professeth that an Angel appeared to him and chastised him sharply for once communicating with the Bishops at the motion of Maximus, when he did it only to save mens lives, that were condemned as Priscillianists. Here are Miracles against the very Pillars of Popery.

And those Canonized Saints that have been most credibly famed for the greatest Miracles, have born their ⟨p. 157⟩Testimony against Popery, and therefore Popery was not confirmed by them. For instance, St. Martin is by his Disciple and Friend Sulpitius Severus affirmed to have done more Miracles than I have ever credibly read done by any since the Apostles: I scarce except Gregory Neocaesar: And yet, whereas the Papal Councils give high priviledges, of pardon, &c. to those that will take the Cross to kill the Waldenses, and compel Princes to it, and uphold their Kingdom by such means, St. Martin separated to the death from the Synods and Bishops about him, for seeking the Magistrates Sword to be drawn against even Priscillian Gnosticks, and he professeth that an Angel appeared to him and chastised him sharply for once communicating with the Bishops at the motion of Maximus, when he did it only to save mens lives, that were condemned as Priscillianists. Here are Miracles against the very Pillars of Popery.