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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.
4. And who or what is this Real Church, that must be first known to be thus empowered and infallible: Is it some few, or many, or must it be the most? If a few or many, you profess that they may be Heretics, and have not that authority or gift. If it must be all, or the greater part; 1. Then the Church of Rome goeth down, that is at most but a third part. 2. How shall every poor man (or any man) know which is the judgment of the major part? Can he take the Votes of all the Christian World? 3. And have all that were converted in the Apostles days ⟨p. 173⟩and since, first known the Major Vote of the Christians, or were they converted by the foreknown Infallibility or Authority of the Majority? (or of the Pope?)
4. And who or what is this Real Church, that must be first known to be thus impowered and infallible: Is it some few, or many, or must it be the most? If a few or many, you profess that they may be Hereticks, and have not that authority or gift. If it must be all, or the greater part; 1. Then the Church of Rome goeth down, that is at most but a third part. 2. How shall every poor man (or any man) know which is the judgment of the major part? Can he take the Votes of all the Christian World? 3. And have all that were converted in the Apostles days ⟨p. 173⟩and since, first known the Major Vote of the Christians, or were they converted by the foreknown Infallibility or Authority of the Majority? (or of the Pope?)
Some will say, we see the Madness of this Popery, but how then do you say that the faith must be received, if not from the Church? I answer I have told you at large in a Treatise called The Reasons of the Christian Religion, and briefly in a smaller Treatise called The certainty of Christianity without Popery