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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.
V. This Papist is one that holdeth, If a fallible Pope and a fallible General Council do but agree, their Decrees are infallible: As if an unlearned Pope (e. g. that understands not the Text of Scripture in the Original) and an unlearned Council (as to the most) should agree, their Decrees would be learned; e. g. in judging which is the true Translation of a Tongue which they never understood. As if ten purblind men if they meet together might produce the Effects of the clearest sight, or Fools by conjunction become wise.
VI. He holdeth that Tradition from Fathers to ⟨p. 176⟩Children is the sure way of conveying all the matter of Faith and Religion; and yet that the greatest General Councils, which are the Church representative, may err in matter of Faith, and have erred; unless a Pope (who is fallible) approve of their Decrees.
VI. He holdeth that Tradition from Fathers to ⟨p. 176⟩Children is the sure way of conveying all the matter of Faith and Religion; and yet that the greatest General Councils, which are the Church representative, may erre in matter of Faith, and have erred; unless a Pope (who is fallible) approve of their Decrees.
VII. And when he hath trusted to this way of Tradition, he denieth the Judgment and Tradition professed by the greater half or the Christian World.
VII. And when he hath trusted to this way of Tradition, he denyeth the Judgment and Tradition professed by the greater half or the Christian World.