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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.
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.
XIII. It is a Church made up of a tolerated hodgepodge of many Sects, some utterly uncapable Members, so they do but serve the Pope.
I have showed out of many Doctors cited by Sancta Clara that many that believe not in Christ are of their Church. He saith himself pag. 113. (Deus, Nat. Grat.) [What is clearer than that at this Day, the Gospel bindeth not, where it is not authentically preached; that is, that at this Day men may be saved without an explicit belief of Christ? For in that sense speaks the Doctor concerning the Jews: And verily what ever my illustrious Master hold, with his learned Master Herera, I think that this was the Opinion of Scotus, and the COMMON one, citing many that follow it.
I have shewed out of many Doctors cited by Sancta Clara that many that believe not in Christ are of their Church. He saith himself pag. 113. (Deus, Nat. Grat.) [What is clearer than that at this Day, the Gospel bindeth not, where it is not authentically preached; that is, that at this Day men may be saved without an explicite belief of Christ? For in that sence speaks the Doctor concerning the Jews: And verily what ever my illustrious Master hold, with his learned Master Herera, I think that this was the Opinion of Scotus, and the COMMON one, citing many that follow it.