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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.
XIII. Our Religion is Faith working by Love. Christs Ministers that are truly of our Religion, take only convincing evidence of Truth, and unfeigned love, and works of love, to be their means of winning Souls: And they take not Christs Discipline, which worketh only on the conscience, to be a leaden Sword, or vain. But yours is a hanging killing Religion; Jails, Strappado's, Exterminating, and Burning men are your means and works of love. You take a Bonfire, or the Ashes of the Bodies of such as will not believe in the Pope, to be a great Medicine to save the peoples Souls. Such Murders as were done on the Albigenses, Waldenses, in the Inquisitions, the French and Irish Massacres, Smithfield Flames, Piedmont, &c. are your proof that you love God and Man, and some of your good works.
XIV. Our Religion tendeth to holy consolation, and a heavenly mind and life: For it teacheth us how to be certain of Gods love by its effects on our Souls, and to ⟨p. 191⟩know that we are justified by Christ, and to trust the sufficiency of his Sacrifice, Merits, and Intercession; and to believe, that when we are absent from the body we shall be present with the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 1. 7, 8. and to desire to depart and be with Christ, Phil. 1. 23. But yours leaveth a man uncertain of his Justification: For you mostly deride such distinguished Fundamentals, as (received) essentiate a justified Christian: And your Doctors lay all mens necessary Religion, and so their Peace, upon their receipt of so much truth as hath been authentically proposed to them; whereas no man living is certain that he hath received so much as hath been so proposed: All men are guilty of neglecting some such Proposal at one time or other: And gradual neglects the best are guilty of. And you cannot ascertain men what is an authentic Proposal. You also tell men of the necessity of their own satisfactions for the sin that Christ forgiveth, and that in the Fire of Purgatory; so that (as is said before) none such can dye comfortably, that look to go hence into such a Fire, where torment may make it hard to you to love God that tormenteth you. It is a spirit of bondage that seemeth to actuate your very austerities, and to turn your Religion into superstitious tasks of self-made Services; Ceremonies, and expectations of the expiating Flames in Purgatory: But you show too little of the Spirit of adoption, of power, love and a sound mind,