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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.
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, Rom. 14. and 15. And we will not believe your Grand-Father, nor Great-Grand-Father, if they told us that the Apostles by Tradition did institute Holy-days, and Vigils for St. Thecla, or St. Bridget, or St. Thomas Becket, or any that were not born till they were dead: And any one Day or Order which you truly prove to us that the Apostles by Tradition ordained for the Universal Church, we profess our selves ready and resolved to obey.
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, Rom. 14. and 15. And we will not believe your Grand-Father, nor Great-Grand-Father, if they told us that the Apostles by Tradition did institute Holy-days, and Vigils for St. Tecla, or St. Bridgit, or St. Thomas Becket, or any that were not born till they were dead: And any one Day or Order which you truly prove to us that the Apostles by Tradition ordained for the Universal Church, we profess our selves ready and resolved to obey.
But if you plead not Tradition for any of these things, but the Churches Commands, (as you must do, or be singular, or ashamed;) here you come to the quick of our difference: 1. We know not of any Universal Vicarious Law-giver under Christ that hath any power to make Laws to the Universal Church throughout the World: and we dare not own any such Usurper lest we be guilty of Treason against the only Head of the whole Church.