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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.
At least, I pray hereafter give over your ill practice of leading simple Readers into a Wood of Church-History, to lose them and the Question there among a multitude of Citations of old Books, when you know not what else to say (as William Johnson did,) ⟨p. 29⟩because there the ignorant know nothing themselves, but may as well believe the Affirmer as the Denier; and at least the diversion to voluminous Controversies about particular mens words may hide your Errors. Do not resolve all the Controversy, yea the Faith of your Followers, into a multitude of Books of Councils and Fathers which they never saw. And do not take so much care to corrupt and alter Books, for your interest, as instances and your Indices Expurg. tell us you have done. Resolve without Book the Controversy about your great Lateran Council, whether Dr. Taylor, Dr. Pierson, Dr. Gunning, (and Bishop Cousins lately) that say Innocent. 3. made and published the Canons, and the Council did not consent to them, be in the right, or rather they that answered Dr. Pierson and Dr. Gunning, and indeed your Church, which holds the contrary (which Mr. Dodwell seemeth to me lately to have fully proved, in his Book about tolerating Papists.)
At least, I pray hereafter give over your ill practice of leading simple Readers into a Wood of Church-History, to lose them and the Question there among a multitude of Citations of old Books, when you know not what else to say (as William Johnson did,) ⟨p. 29⟩because there the ignorant know nothing themselves, but may as well believe the Affirmer as the Denyer; and at least the diversion to voluminous Controversies about particular mens words may hide your Errours. Do not resolve all the Controversie, yea the Faith of your Followers, into a multitude of Books of Councils and Fathers which they never saw. And do not take so much care to corrupt and alter Books, for your interest, as instances and your Indices Expurg. tell us you have done. Resolve without Book the Controversie about your great Laterane Council, whether Dr. Taylor, Dr. Pierson, Dr. Gunning, (and Bishop Cousins lately) that say Innocent. 3. made and published the Canons, and the Council did not consent to them, be in the right, or rather they that answered Dr. Pierson and Dr. Gunning, and indeed your Church, which holds the contrary (which Mr. Dodwell seemeth to me lately to have fully proved, in his Book about tolerating Papists.)