A26962:446
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.
This is not to be denied: And Knot against Chillingworth hath no other shift, but to resolve their belief of the Churches infallibility and authority, not into any word or donation of Christ, but into Miracles wrought by the Church. So that no man can be a Believer that is not first certain of the Papists Miracles (and how can millions know them, when they see them not? and in all my life I could never meet with one that saw them.) And he must next be certain that those miracles prove the infallibility of the Pope; when yet they confess that they prove not the Infallibility of him that doth them. Valentine Greatreak• hath done and still doth more wondrous cures by touch or stroking, than ever I heard by any credible report that any Papist did: and yet he pretendeth to no Infallibility.
This is not to be denyed: And Knot against Chillingworth hath no other shift, but to resolve their belief of the Churches infallibility and authority, not into any word or donation of Christ, but into Miracles wrought by the Church. So that no man can be a Believer that is not first certain of the Papists Miracles (and how can millions know them, when they see them not? and in all my life I could never meet with one that saw them.) And he must next be certain that those miracles prove the infallibility of the Pope; when yet they confess that they prove not the Infallibility of him that doth them. Valentine Greatreak• hath done and still doth more wonderous cures by touch or stroaking, than ever I heard by any credible report that any Papist did: and yet he pretendeth to no Infallibility.
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.