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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.
For an approved General Council hath decreed this, and such Councils are his Religion. Were it his own Father or Mother, Wife or Child, that cannot thus renounce all his own and other mens Senses, and believe that there is no Bread or Wine in spite of his sight, taste, touch, &c. he believeth that they should be burnt as Heretics, or exterminated. He may be a good natured man that is loth it should be so; or he may be one that is ignorant of his own Religion, and doth not know that this is one Article of Popery; or he may be an unconscionable man, that will not obey that which he knoweth to be his Religion; or he may be unable to execute such Laws: But it is his Religion to believe that he ought to do it.
For an approved General Council hath decreed this, and such Councils are his Religion. Were it his own Father or Mother, Wife or Child, that cannot thus renounce all his own and other mens Senses, and believe that there is no Bread or Wine in spight of his sight, taste, touch, &c. he believeth that they should be burnt as Hereticks, or exterminated. He may be a good naetur'd man that is loth it should be so; or he may be one that is ignorant of his own Religion, and doth not know that this is one Article of Popery; or he may be an unconscionable man, that will not obey that which he knoweth to be his Religion; or he may be unable to execute such Laws: But it is his Religion to believe that he ought to do it.
IX. If he be a Temporal Lord of a Protestant Country, it is part of his Religion to take himself obliged to root out, destroy, or burn all his Protestant Subjects, and all others that deny Transubstantiation.
Obj. The King of France, and some others, do it not.