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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.
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.
1. That they take all their Faith in Christ and the Gospel on the credit of the Church (that is, the Pope and Council) proposing it, the moderatest of all this sort profess; as out of Veron, and others, I proved as aforecited. Hence it is that one tells us that the Scripture is so full of seeming Contradictions and Improbabilities, that he would no more believe it than Aesop's Fables, were it not for the Authority of the Church. Another said [Would I ever believe the Trinity, the Incarnation, that if you lay a man to dye in a close Chest of Lead or Marble his Soul could get out to Heaven, that the Body shall rise again, &c. were it not for the Authority of the Church?]
1. That they take all their Faith in Christ and the Gospel on the credit of the Church (that is, the Pope and Council) proposing it, the moderatest of all this sort profess; as out of Veron, and others, I proved as aforecited. Hence it is that one tells us that the Scripture is so full of seeming Contradictions and Improbabilities, that he would no more believe it than Esop's Fables, were it not for the Authority of the Church. Another said [Would I ever believe the Trinity, the Incarnation, that if you lay a man to dye in a close Chest of Lead or Marble his Soul could get out to Heaven, that the Body shall rise again, &c. were it not for the Authority of the Church?]