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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.
II. The Religion of Protestants is no bigger, nor no other in the Essentials, than the Sacramental Covenant with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, expounded in the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue: And in the Integrals no bigger, nor other, than the holy Canonical Scriptures. But the Papists is as big as all the Decrees of all General Councils, added to all the Bible; if not the Popes Decretals also, and uncertain Traditions.
Tell us not of our 39 Articles, and other Church Confessions, as contrary to this: For those Confessions all profess what I here say: And you may as well tell us of our other Books and Sermons. Our question is not of mens Subjective Religion; For so each person hath one of his own; And it cannot be known but by knowing what is in each mans mind! And our Books and Confessions are (as is aforesaid) but the Expression of our sense of that which is our Regular Objective Religion: And we are ready to confess and amend any misconception: but our Objective Religion which is the Rule and Law of our Faith is only Divine.
III. Our Religion is known, even the Sacred Bible. But yours is unknown: what are approved Councils, and what decrees are intended to be de fide, and what temporal, and what perpetual, and how far the Popes Decretals bind, and whether all Isidore Mercator's Decretals be the Popes, with abundance of the like.