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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.
XVIII. Our Religion is for so much fasting and austerities as is truly necessary to the subduing of Pride, Worldliness, or fleshly lusts, or to express our self-abasement in due times of humiliation, (prescribed by Authority on public occasions, or discerned by our selves in private;) and so much as is truly helpful to us in Gods service, or our preparations for death. But how much you have turned these into unreasonable Ceremony, and how much into a pretended satisfaction to Gods Justice by punishing our selves, as if our hurt delighted God when it tends not to our healing, I shall not now stay to open. See Dallaeus de Poenis, Indulgentis, & de Jejuniis, of it at large.
XVIII. Our Religion is for so much fasting and austerities as is truly necessary to the subduing of Pride, Worldliness, or fleshly lusts, or to express our self-abasement in due times of humiliation, (prescribed by Authority on publick occasions, or discerned by our selves in private;) and so much as is truly helpful to us in Gods service, or our preparations for death. But how much you have turned these into unreasonable Ceremony, and how much into a pretended satisfaction to Gods Justice by punishing our selves, as if our hurt delighted God when it tends not to our healing, I shall not now stay to open. See Dallaeus de Poenis, Indulgentis, & de Jejuniis, of it at large.
XIX. Our Religion teacheth us that all that truly believe in, and are heartily devoted to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as their God, and Saviour, and Sanctifier, forsaking the Devil, the World, and the Flesh, should be taken by Baptismal profession hereof into the Church, and shall be saved, if they prove not Hypocrites or Apostates: And that we must judge men by this their Profession, till they plainly or provedly nullify it, supposing every man, under God, to be the best Judge of his own heart.
XIX. Our Religion teacheth us that all that truly believe in, and are heartily devoted to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as their God, and Saviour, and Sanctifier, forsaking the Devil, the World, and the Flesh, should be taken by Baptismal profession hereof into the Church, and shall be saved, if they prove not Hypocrites or Apostates: And that we must judge men by this their Profession, till they plainly or provedly nullifie it, supposing every man, under God, to be the best Judge of his own heart.