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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.
How few Christians be there on Earth, if none are such but those that by known Popish miracles believed the Pope to be infallible before they believed that there was a Christ?
And thus they must believe him to be Infallible not as Pope, but somewhat else: For to be Pope, is to be [Christs pretended Vicar:] And to believe that he is authorized or Infallible as Christs Vicar, before they believe there is a Christ, is a mad-mans contradiction and impossible. ⟨p. 158⟩What Infallible wight then is it that we must first believe the Pope to be, before we believe him to be Pope? To what impudence will interest and faction carry men?
I will again recite the words of an honest Jesuit, Joseph. Acosta de tempor. novis. li. 3. c. 3. [To all the miracles of Antichrist, though he do great ones, the Church shall boldly oppose the belief of the Scriptures: And by the inexpugnable testimony of this truth, shall by most clear light expel all his jugglings as Clouds—Signs are given to Infidels; Scriptures to Believers; and therefore the primitive Church abounded with miracles, when Infidels were to be called: But the last, when the faithful are already called, shall rest more on the Scripture than on miracles: yea I will boldly say, that all miracles are vain and empty, unless they be approved by the Scripture; that is, have a Doctrine conform to the Scripture. But the Scripture it self is of it self a most firm argument of truth.
I will again recite the words of an honest Jesuit, Joseph. Acosta de tempor. novis. li. 3. c. 3. [To all the miracles of Antichrist, though he do great ones, the Church shall boldly oppose the belief of the Scriptures: And by the inexpugnable testimony of this truth, shall by most clear light expel all his juglings as Clouds—Signs are given to Infidels; Scriptures to Believers; and therefore the primitive Church abounded with miracles, when Infidels were to be called: But the last, when the faithful are already called, shall rest more on the Scripture than on miracles: yea I will boldly say, that all miracles are vain and empty, unless they be approved by the Scripture; that is, have a Doctrine conform to the Scripture. But the Scripture it self is of it self a most firm argument of truth.