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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 ...

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for N. Simmons, 1677

196, [8] p. · 61k words · Wing B1315 · ESTC R13884

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:90p. 38¶4

4. But I perceive, p. 5. your Instances of their defectiveness are, that they are not for [fasting days, particular Garments for Priests, set Forms, Christmas-day, Good-Friday, Ascension, Whitsuntide, &c. which they take for mere Humane inventions and Will-worship; Because they think that the New Testament was written to instruct us Christians in the whole Body of Gospel-worship, &c.

4. But I perceive, p. 5. your Instances of their defectiveness are, that they are not for [fasting days, particular Garments for Priests, set Forms, Christmas-day, Good-Friday, Ascension, Whitsuntide, &c. which they take for meer Humane inventions and Will-worship; Because they think that the New Testament was written to instruct us Christians in the whold Body of Gospel-worship, &c.

:91p. 38

But you are best prove this only by telling us that you know some persons of that mind: And when you have done, I will demand your Proof that those Persons are no more than Puritans: They have oft told you that their judgment is, that for all that substance of God's Worship which is of Universal necessity to the Church, and is of Divine Institution, the holy Scripture is a sufficient Rule: But that very many Circumstances and outward Acts have in Scripture but a General Law (that they be all done to edification, decently, orderly, in Concord, &c.) and it is left to Humane Prudence to order them by such Rules: We condemn no one that useth holy Fasts or Feasts, but think them needful: We judge not those that celebrate the Memorial of God's great Mercies to his Church, by giving him thanks for the holy Life and Doctrine of his Eminent Saints, &c. But will you plainly have our judgment?

:92p. 39

We think Saint Paul was in the right that taught the Church of Rome it self, both the Rulers and the Flocks, that they must neither judge nor despise each other for differences about Meats and Days, but receive each other (to Communion notwithstanding such differences) as Christ received us,

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Title as printed: 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 ...
Author: Richard Baxter 1615–1691
Place: London
Bookseller: N. Simmons
Year: 1677
Size: 196, [8] p.
Words: 60,859
Catalogue: Wing B1315 · ESTC R13884
Text: EEBO-TCP A26962

Passages: 699
Sections: 22

:102p. 40–42

A Puritan then, as the Word is commonly taken by the Rabble, is a serious Christian Protestant, who truly believeth and practiseth what he doth profess, and doth not mortify ⟨p. 41⟩that Profession which should help to mortify his Sin: His Religion is, to be understandingly and sincerely devoted in the Sacramental Covenant to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; renouncing the Vanities of the World, the Lusts of the Flesh, and the Delusions of the Devil: He believeth that all that truly consent to this Covenant, have a right, and part, in, and to, the Love of God the Father, the Grace of the Son, and the Communion of the Holy Chost; and that he that hath the Son hath Life, Pardon, Adoption, Justification, and Right to Life Eternal; and that this Right is continued, he performing his Covenant, and continuing in that Faith which worketh by Love, and not living impenitently in sin, but sincerely obeying God his Father, Saviour, and Sanctifier: He taketh the fear of Gods Justi••, •nd godly Sorrow, to be but the lower steps of Holiness; but that the Kingdom of God is (not Meats and Days, but) Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost; and that the Spirit of Christ, without which none are his, is not the Spirit of Bondage, but of Power, Love, and a sound Mind; even a Spirit of holy LIFE, LIGHT, and LOVE, which are the Essentials of true Holiness; and the Spirit of Adoption, and Supplication, causeth us with Love to cry to God, and trust him as a Father: They take Christ to be the only Mediator between God and Man, whose sufficient Sacrifice for Sin, and perfect Righteousness, Habitual, Active, and Passive (as called) advanced in dignity by the Divine Nature, is the Meritorious cause of all their Mercies to Body and Soul, Remission, Justification, Holiness, and Glory: They put up all their Services, as into, and by, the Hand of Christ; and from his Mediatory Hand they expect all mercies: They take the Holy Ghost within them to be Christ's ⟨p. 42⟩Advocate and Witness to them of his Truth and Love; and their Witness, Earnest, Seal, Pledge, and first Fruits of endless Life: They take Eternal Glory for their full Felicity, and this World, and Flesh, (Pleasure, Riches, and Honour,) to be so far useful as they signify Gods Love, and further our Love and Service to him;

A Puritan then, as the Word is commonly taken by the Rabble, is a serious Christian Protestant, who truly believeth and practiseth what he doth profess, and doth not mortifie ⟨p. 41⟩that Profession which should help to mortifie his Sin: His Religion is, to be understandingly and sincerely devoted in the Sacramental Covenant to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; renouncing the Vanities of the World, the Lusts of the Flesh, and the Delusions of the Devil: He believeth that all that truly consent to this Covenant, have a right, and part, in, and to, the Love of God the Father, the Grace of the Son, and the Communion of the Holy Chost; and that he that hath the Son hath Life, Pardon, Adoption, Justification, and Right to Life Eternal; and that this Right is continued, he performing his Covenant, and continuing in that Faith which worketh by Love, and not living impenitently in sin, but sincerely obeying God his Father, Saviour, and Sanctifier: He taketh the fear of Gods Justi••, •nd godly Sorrow, to be but the lower steps of Holiness; but that the Kingdom of God is (not Meats and Days, but) Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost; and that the Spirit of Christ, without which none are his, is not the Spirit of Bondage, but of Power, Love, and a sound Mind; even a Spirit of holy LIFE, LIGHT, and LOVE, which are the Essentials of true Holiness; and the Spirit of Adoption, and Supplication, causeth us with Love to cry to God, and trust him as a Father: They take Christ to be the only Mediator between God and Man, whose sufficient Sacrifice for Sin, and perfect Righteousness, Habitual, Active, and Passive (as called) advanced in dignity by the Divine Nature, is the Meritorious cause of all their Mercies to Body and Soul, Remission, Justification, Holiness, and Glory: They put up all their Services, as into, and by, the Hand of Christ; and from his Mediatory Hand they expect all mercies: They take the Holy Ghost within them to be Christ's ⟨p. 42⟩Advocate and Witness to them of his Truth and Love; and their Witness, Earnest, Seal, Pledge, and first Fruits of endless Life: They take Eternal Glory for their full Felicity, and this World, and Flesh, (Pleasure, Riches, and Honour,) to be so far useful as they signifie Gods Love, and further our Love and Service to him;