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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.
X. It is a Church that believeth Contradictions (as is proved in their Councils) e. g. The Council of Basil, ⟨p. 184⟩Sess. ult. saying [No one of the skilful did ever doubt, but that the Pope was subject to the Judgment of a General Council, in things that concern Faith, &c.] And others saying the clean contrary: As also in divers other things.
XI. It was for above forty years, sometimes two, sometimes three Churches, instead of one: For the Head being an essential part, two or three Heads make as many Churches.
XII. It is at this day divers Churches really, as to the Form, that are by the ignorant supposed to be one: Two or three Forms and Parts Imperantes, being essential, make as many Churches, though the subjects live mixed. The summa Potestas is a constitutive essential part. Some called Papists take the Pope for the summa Potestas, and some a Council, and some both conjunct, and some the Church real or diffused through the World.
XII. It is at this day divers Churches really, as to the Form, that are by the ignorant supposed to be one: Two or three Forms and Partes Imperantes, being essential, make as many Churches, though the subjects live mixt. The summa Potestas is a constitutive essential part. Some called Papists take the Pope for the summa Potestas, and some a Council, and some both conjunct, and some the Church real or diffused through the World.