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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.
VI. It is an unholy Church, as distinct from the ⟨p. 183⟩holy Catholic Church, and that both in the essential Matter and Form. 1. In the Matter, its Head which is a constitutive part, having been oft a condemned Heretic, Infidel, Murderer, and other flagitious wicked man. 2. As to the Form, being not of God it is not holy. 3. Besides that, as to the Head, he was long made by the most wicked Whores.
VI. It is an unholy Church, as distinct from the ⟨p. 183⟩holy Catholick Church, and that both in the essential Matter and Form. 1. In the Matter, its Head which is a constitutive part, having been oft a condemned Heretick, Infidel, Murderer, and other flagitious wicked man. 2. As to the Form, being not of God it is not holy. 3. Besides that, as to the Head, he was long made by the most wicked Whores.
All this is before proved at large.
VII. It is a Church that hath had its pretended succession interrupted (as is proved;) sometimes by long Vacancies, sometimes by long Schisms, when no one was the Universal Head; sometimes by the Incapacity of the Persons, being Lay-men, or Infidels, Simoniacal, condemned deposed Heretics, and therefore no Bishops.
VII. It is a Church that hath had its pretended succession interrupted (as is proved;) sometimes by long Vacances, sometimes by long Schismes, when no one was the Universal Head; sometimes by the Incapacity of the Persons, being Lay-men, or Infidels, Simoniaoal, condemned deposed Hereticks, and therefore no Bishops.