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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.
XXI. He is satisfied that their Church hath a Judge of Controversies, though he decide them not: And he glorieth in the Unity and great Concord of their Church, whose Doctors differ de fide even in the Exposition of many hundred Texts of Gods Word; and ⟨p. 180⟩where they differ in the Morals before cited, about Murder, killing excommunicate Kings, &c. and in Volumes of Controversies. And yet he looketh upon far smaller differences among us with great offence, as if they were intolerable, and were so many different Religions: And all because in all their differences they agree in one Pope. As if it were not as good an Union to agree in one God, one Christ, one Spirit, one Body or Church of Christ, one Faith (Creed and Scripture) one Baptismal Covenant, and one Hope of life eternal, Eph. 4. 3, 4, 5, 6. which is the Union that God describeth.
XXI. He is satisfied that their Church hath a Judge of Controversies, though he decide them not: And he gloryeth in the Unity and great Concord of their Church, whose Doctors differ de fide even in the Exposition of many hundred Texts of Gods Word; and ⟨p. 180⟩where they differ in the Morals before cited, about Murder, killing excommunicate Kings, &c. and in Volumes of Controversies. And yet he looketh upon far smaller differences among us with great offense, as if they were intolerable, and were so many different Religions: And all because in all their differences they agree in one Pope. As if it were not as good an Union to agree in one God, one Christ, one Spirit, one Body or Church of Christ, one Faith (Creed and Scripture) one Baptismal Covenant, and one Hope of life eternal, Eph. 4. 3, 4, 5, 6. which is the Union that God describeth.