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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.
II. Having showed what a Pope is, I am next hence to tell you what we Protestants take a Papist to be.
II. HAving shewed what a Pope is, I am next hence to tell you what we Protestants take a Papist to be.
And first as to the name, it is equivocal: There are so many sorts that are called commonly by the one name of Papists, that it is hard to enumerate and describe them all.
1. There are some that believe that the Pope is but a Humane Creature, that hath run up his power into Tyranny by abuse, and it were well if he were either down, or reduced to his first state: But they take themselves to be as those that live under other abusive, oppressing or tyrannical Governors, who must live in Patience and Submission, and are not bound to ruin themselves, by opposing him in vain; and though he impose on them ⟨p. 166⟩many things which they like not, but had rather they were reformed, yet it being not in their power, and Princes and Magistrates commanding them the same, they take Conformity to be orderly, and Nonconformity to be unpeaceable and of ill fame; And if any of the things commanded them prove sinful, they hope God will forgive them (for bowing in the house of Rimmon) and will lay it on Popes, Princes and Prelates, and not on them that are not bound to study Controversies; and who do what they do but in obedience and for peace (pretences that quiet their Consciences in self-saving Conformity:) I verily think that the greater part of those called Papists in all the world, are of this self-saving sort. As we see in all Countries that the greater number are or seem to be of the Religion of those in power, be it what it will be. And we ordinarily hear that the common people will thus talk against the Popes Doctrines and Practices, and yet quiet themselves on such terms of Conformity as I here describe.