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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.
XV. A Papist thinketh that all the Bible is not big enough, or hath not enough in it, to save those that believe and practise it, or to make us a saving Religion; but other Tradition must be received with equal reverence; and the Decrees of all the approved General Councils must make it up.
XVI. He confesseth every Article and word of the Religion of the Protestants to be infallibly true; and yet holdeth that they are to be burnt and damned as Heretics.
XVI. He confesseth every Article and word of the Religion of the Protestants to be infallibly true; and yet holdeth that they are to be burnt and damned as Hereticks.
For he confesseth every part of the Canonical Scripture to be true, and we have no more in our (objective, positive) Religion, not a word. Our Negations of Popery ⟨p. 179⟩are not properly our Religion, any more than our speaking against Diseases is our Health: But as our health containeth our own freedom from an hundred diseases which we never thought of, as well as those that we once had or feared; so our Faith and Religion is free from Popery, and containeth that which is against it.