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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.
2. But it was no silent submission, when several Popes were upheld by several Kingdoms. So that there is no way of certain notice who is the true Pope, but he must go for the man, as Eugenius 4. did after his Deposition, who can keep possession, which is no title at all.
2. Yea, I prove certainly, according to their own Principles, that there is no Pope at Rome, nor hath been for many an hundred years.
For they hold themselves, that the Right must be derived by an uninterrupted Succession from S. Peter, (and call us no Ministers for want of Succession:) But that they have no such uninterrupted Succession is notorious.
For, 1. An Infidel and Heretic Pope, so openly judged, can be no Pope: Else a Turk might be Pope. For he that is no Christian, is no Christian Bishop. But Popes (before mentioned) have been judged Infidels, Heretics, incarnate Devils.
For, 1. An Infidel and Heretick Pope, so openly judged, can be no Pope: Else a Turk might be Pope. For he that is no Christian, is no Christian Bishop. But Popes (before mentioned) have been judged Infidels, Hereticks, incarnate Devils.