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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.
V. There are other that think the Pope is the Universal ⟨p. 168⟩Head by Divine Institution; even as S. Peter's Successor, by derivation of the Power which Christ gave Peter.
And as about the Foundation, so about the Subject and the Measure of Power, yea who is the true Chief Ruler over the Uuniversal Church, there are these several sorts of Popery.
I. Some believe that it is General Councils that are the Subject or Possessors of Supreme Church Power and Infallibility, and that the Pope is but the first in order of the five Patriarchs in such Councils; who hath no necessary right to call them, nor no negative Voice in them, nor any Government over the other Patriarchs, or their Churches; but only the first Seat, if he be there; just as the Patriarch of Alexandria first, and of Constantinople after had when the Patriarch of Rome was absent. And thus indeed it was in the Empire, for a long time. But those five Patriarchs ruled not all the World; no more than our two Provincial Archbishops do.