A26962:514
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.
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?]
2. They believe this Infallibility and Authority of the Pope before they can believe that there is any Pope at all. For to be a Pope is essentially to be Christs Vicar as they describe him: And, as I said, it is impossible to believe that Christ hath a Vicar, before they believe that he is Christ. As it is to believe a Son without a Parent.
3. They believe the Infallibility and Authority of the Church, (as they profess) before they believe that there is any Church: For to be a Church is essentially to be a