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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.
Now our Tradition is this: For all the Essentials of our Religion, the Sacramental Covenant, and the three expository Symbols, we have the currant Tradition both of the Papists and all the rest of the Christian World: Yea, that every Book that we call Canonical is the true Word of God, not only the Papists but almost all the Christian World confess: And, defacto, that these Books came down from the Apostles, at least that the Gospel was preached by them, we have the Testimony also of Enemies and Persecutors. And are not all these more than the Testimony of one Sect alone? 2. And in this we have as much to confirm us as you have, of the wisdom, piety, care of the Church to preserve the Gospel, and ⟨p. 22⟩much more too; for we have the Piety of all the Churches to plead, and not your Sect alone: And we undertake to prove such a moral Infallibility as is also Natural, viz. That Mans Nature and Interests supposed, it is no more possible for so many Persons and Nations of cross Interests to have agreed in their Testimony for the Gospel, than for all the contentious Lawyers in the Land to have agreed falsely to inform us, that our Statutes were made by such Kings and Parliaments. But a domineering Faction alone might easilier have deceived men.
Now our Tradition is this: For all the Essentials of our Religion, the Sacramental Covenant, and the three expository Symbols, we have the currant Tradition both of the Papists and all the rest of the Christian World: Yea, that every Book that we call Canonical is the true Word of God, not only the Papists but almost all the Christian World confess: And, defacto, that these Books came down from the Apostles, at least that the Gospel was preached by them, we have the Testimony also of Enemies and Persecutors. And are not all these more than the Testimony of one Sect alone? 2. And in this we have as much to confirm us as you have, of the wisdom, piety, care of the Church to preserve the Gospel, and ⟨p. 22⟩much more too; for we have the Piety of all the Churches to plead, and not your Sect alone: And we undertake to prove such a moral Infallibility as is also Natural, viz. That Mans Nature and Interests supposed, it is no more possible for so many Persons and Nations of cross Interests to have agreed in their Testimony for the Gospel, than for all the contentious Lawyers in the Land to have agreed falsly to inform us, that our Statutes were made by such Kings and Parliaments. But a domineering Faction alone might easilier have deceived men.