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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.
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.
Ans. Very good: 1. Else no man was a Christian, nor could be, before the first General Council, which was above 300 years.
2. But still this answereth none of the Contradictions about believing in and from the Pope: May we all take our Faith from the Church-real, without taking it from the Pope, or not? If yea, we may possibly be good friends at last. If not, all the Contradictions about him are still upheld by you.