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A winding-sheet for popery. By Richard Baxter, CatholicA winding-sheet for popery. By Richard Baxter, Catholick
A winding-sheet for popery. By Richard Baxter, Catholic.A winding-sheet for popery. By Richard Baxter, Catholick.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevil Simmons, 1657
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.
A Winding-sheet FOR POPERY.
By RICHARD BAXTER, CATHOLIC.
By RICHARD BAXTER, CATHOLICK.
LONDON, Printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, Book-cellar in Kidderminster, Anno Dom. 1657.
LONDON, Printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, Book-sellar in Kederminster, Anno Dom. 1657.
A winding sheet for Popery. BY Richard Baxter, Catholic.
A winding sheet for Popery. BY Richard Baxter, Catholick.
Among all the sects that have troubled the Church of Christ, there is none that have heaped up such a multitude of errors, and made such a vexatious stir for them in the world, by subtlety, importunity, flames and blood-shed, as the Papists have done. Where they dare do it, they cruelly torment, and bloodily murder those that are not of their erroneous mind: Yea, its part of their Religion to force all Christian Princes to destroy us; and if they will not, to absolve their subjects from their allegiance, and deliver up their Countries to a Papist that will destroy us. For this is the Decree of one of their undoubted Councils, Later. sub Innoc. 3. Can. 3. And where they cannot or dare not do this, they are busy day and night to deceive; turning themselves into the shape of various Sects, and creeping in among both rich and poor, but specially insinuating into Rulers and Commanders, that may do them the greatest service when they are seduced. And their ordinary way is to seek first to unsettle men, and make them doubt of their former profession, and bring them into dislike with their Teachers, and so to win them over to themselves. To which end, their common cry is, that we are of a new Religion, that we are Heretics, that we are a small Party, and divided all to pieces among our selves, and that we are but lost in wandering and confusion, and all because we have left the Church of Rome, which is the true Catholic Apostolic Church, and which all our fore-fathers lived and dyed in, and which is the Centre and Head of unity, and the only judge of controversies, for want of whose infallible decision, every man interpreting Scriptures as he please, and being a Pope to himself, we are so many men, so many minds, and all out of the way, and shall never be right till we return to the Pope. Here's a fair and plausible tale, that may catch the simple, that know not what the Church or Religion is, and may shake those that never