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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.
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.
And here I desire the Reader to peruse what I have said in my [Full and easy satisfaction, &c.] out of Veron, and others, as they describe their Faith themselves.
And here I desire the Reader to peruse what I have said in my [Full and easie satisfaction, &c.] out of Veron, and others, as they describe their Faith themselves.
I. A PAPIST of this sort is one that believeth that the Pope and his Council, or Church, is Infallible in proposing ⟨p. 170⟩the will of Christ; and believeth in Christ, and receiveth the Gospel as true, for the Authority and Infallibility of this Pope and Council, and hereon layeth all the hopes of his salvation, as on the Churches Faith: And all this Authority and Infallibility he believeth before he believeth that there is a Pope or a Church of Christ, or a Christ indeed, or a promise or gift from Christ of any Authority or Infallibility to them: Much more before he knoweth who is the true Pope, and which are true General Councils, or whether ever there were any such, or what it is that they have decreed to be believed.