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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.
XV. It is a Church that hath almost laid by the ancient Discipline of Christs appointment, and instead of it hath set up partly Auricular Confession, when it should be Public, and partly a tyrannical sort of hostile proclaiming their Adversaries excommunicate without hearing them, and forbidding Gods Word and Worship to whole Kingdoms.
XV. It is a Church that hath almost laid by the ancient Discipline of Christs appointment, and instead of it hath set up partly Auricular Confession, when it should be Publick, and partly a tyrannical sort of hostile proclaiming their Adversaries excommunicate without hearing them, and forbidding Gods Word and Worship to whole Kingdoms.
Saith Learned Albaspineus a Bishop, Observ. 1. pag. 1. [If ever any one in this Age was deprived of Communion (which I know not whether it ever fell out) it was only from the receiving of the Eucharist: In the other parts of his life he retained the same familiarity and converse with other Believers, which he had before he was excommunicated.
XVI. It is a Church that is upheld by Flames and Blood, distrusting the ancient Discipline, and the mere Protection of the Magistrate, and the proper work of his Office.
XVI. It is a Church that is upheld by Flames and Blood, distrusting the ancient Discipline, and the meer Protection of the Magistrate, and the proper work of his Office.