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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.
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.
And here you may see, that when the Question is, Whether a Papist may be saved? and Whether a Papist be a Heretic? or the like; that it cannot be well answered, till we know of which sort of Papists you speak.
And here you may see, that when the Question is, Whether a Papist may be saved? and Whether a Papist be a Heretick? or the like; that it cannot be well answered, till we know of which sort of Papists you speak.
But because I find that already my Writing is swelled beyond my first intent, I will give you the Properties or inadequate conceptions of only one sort of Papists, which is the third sort in the last distribution, who hold the Sovereignty and Infallibility to be in the Pope and Council conjunct, and that by Divine Right. Because if I speak of any of the other sorts, I find they fly for refuge hither, and most Writers go upon this ground, and will own nothing as their Religion but what is in Approved General Councils.
But because I find that already my Writing is swelled beyond my first intent, I will give you the Properties or inadequate conceptions of only one sort of Papists, which is the third sort in the last distribution, who hold the Soveraignty and Infallibility to be in the Pope and Council conjunct, and that by Divine Right. Because if I speak of any of the other sorts, I find they fly for refuge hither, and most Writers go upon this ground, and will own nothing as their Religion but what is in Approved General Councils.