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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 (and I think the most numerous among the Learned) called Papists, hold that Neither the Pope alone, nor the Council alone, are the Seat or Possessors of the supreme Legislative Power, or the Infallibility, nor of the supreme judging and executive power ⟨p. 169⟩sedente concilio; but it is both of them agreeing or conjunct: And two Fallibles joining, become one Infallible.
III. Another sort (and I think the most numerous among the Learned) called Papists, hold that Neither the Pope alone, nor the Council alone, are the Seat or Possessors of the supreme Legislative Power, or the Infallibility, nor of the supreme judging and executive power ⟨p. 169⟩sedente concilio; but it is both of them agreeing or conjunct: And two Fallibles joyning, become one Infallible.
IV. Another sort of Papists, and very numerous especially in Italy, hold, that the Pope alone is Supreme and Infallible in Legislation and Judgment, and that Councils are but his Counsellors, to prepare Laws, to which his Fiat giveth Authority and Infallibility.
All these indeed are commonly called PAPISTS, because that more or less they are Subjects of the Pope. But who can give one definition, or the same marks of men that are really of so many minds? If I describe one sort, the other will say, this is not our Opinion; you do us wrong. And so of all the rest.