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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. Another sort called Papists do believe that the Pope is a mere humane creature also, not over all the world but in the Empire and where Princes let him: And consequently as men set him up, men might take him down. But yet that it is an Orderly Institution, as Kings and Emperors, and that his place is Lawful, and that it is the duty of the Church to obey him, especially when Princes also do command it: And that men have power from God to make, as National, Provincial, and Patriarchal Churches and Rulers, so also an Universal Church and Ruler for Order and Unity sake over many Countries, and that it is good and desirable to these ends.
II. Another sort called Papists do believe that the Pope is a meer humane creature also, not over all the world but in the Empire and where Princes let him: And consequently as men set him up, men might take him down. But yet that it is an Orderly Institution, as Kings and Emperors, and that his place is Lawful, and that it is the duty of the Church to obey him, especially when Princes also do command it: And that men have power from God to make, as National, Provincial, and Patriarchal Churches and Rulers, so also an Universal Church and Ruler for Order and Unity sake over many Countries, and that it is good and desirable to these ends.
Of these there are two sorts. 1. One sort take the ⟨p. 167⟩Papacy and Patriarchs to be a lawful and laudable institution of Constantine, confirmed by other Princes. 2. The other sort take them to be laudable Institutions of General Councils, or else of particular consenting Bishops before the first General Council (whom thy call the Church.)
Of these there are two sorts. 1. One sort take the ⟨p. 167⟩Papacie and Patriarchs to be a lawful and laudable institution of Constantine, confirmed by other Princes. 2. The other sort take them to be laudable Institutions of General Councils, or else of particular consenting Bishops before the first General Council (whom thy call the Church.)