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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.
6. They believe thus in the Pope, before they know what a Pope is, or who is he that they must thus believe in. For alas, how can all or any in the world know what is necessary to make a Pope? what Election? what Ordination? what Qualification? and whether the man had all these? And of divers Pretenders which is he that hath the proofs of a true title?
7. They believe thus in Councils, when they know not what Councils are true, and what not; nay whether ever there were any: For I have elsewhere fully proved that there never was any, nor ever will be, that are truly Universal as to all the Christian World.
8. Much less do these beginners know certainly, what General Councils have decreed to be believed by those that will be saved.
That which will be said to all this is, that It is not necessary that all men receive their Faith from Councils; it is sufficient if it be from the Church-real, though not from the Representative.