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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.
III. Another sort called Papists, do believe the Pope (as the former) to be a humane Creature, viz. of the first or ancient Bishops by mutual consent; but that it was a necessary thing, which by Gods General Laws, and his special Inspiration, they did well, and were bound to do for the Churches concord and strength; and that it is not lawful for the Church now to alter it, or any Prince in his Dominions.
These also are of three sorts: 1. Some think that the Roman Seat may be altered, and the Church upon just cause may remove the Primacy to another Bishop. This seemeth to be the opinion of Cardinal Cusanus afore cited de Concord. who saith, The Church might make the Bishop of Trent chief. 2. Others seem rather to think, that God hath by Decree annexed the Supremacy to Rome, and yet (as R. Smith, the Bishop of Calcedon, and Ruler of the English Popish Clergy afore cited) think, that it is not de fide, that the Pope is Peters Successor. 3. Others say that they are not sure but God may destroy Rome, and remove the Primacy; but Men may not do it.
These also are of three sorts: 1. Some think that the Roman Seat may be altered, and the Church upon just cause may remove the Primacy to another Bishop. This seemeth to be the opinion of Cardinal Cusanus afore cited de Concord. who saith, The Church might make the Bishop of Trent chief. 2. Others seem rather to think, that God hath by Decree annexed the Supremacy to Rome, and yet (as R. Smyth, the Bishop of Calcedon, and Ruler of the English Popish Clergy afore cited) think, that it is not de fide, that the Pope is Peters Successor. 3. Others say that they are not sure but God may destroy Rome, and remove the Primacy; but Men may not do it.
IV. The whole Greek Church seem yet of the second or third opinion, (that the Pope had a just Primacy in one Empire, which was justly removed to Constantinople:) But there are some that think the Pope had also a just Primacy in all the Christian World, and yet that he hath it but by Humane Institution.