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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.
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 ⟨p. 171⟩Society of Christians: And he that yet believeth not that Christ is truly Christ, cannot believe that Christians are truly Christians, save de nomine; nor that Christ hath a Church: For they are Relatives, as Wife and Husband.
4. They believe the Infallibility and Authority of the Church, that is, the Pope and Council, before they believe that Jesus is the Christ; For they profess to believe in him, because of the said Churches Authority and Infallibility: And the Premises go before the Conclusion.
5. They believe the said Infallibility and Authority of the Church, before they believe that ever Christ gave them such Authority and Infallibility: For they cannot believe that Christ gave it them, before they believe that there is a Christ, and a Word of gift.