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A26962	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 ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1315; ESTC R13884	120,987	206

to God I know not I love Cartesian Philosophy the worse because its principle is so congruous to this And their Doctrine of lawful hiding their Religion by Equivocation is commonly known And what they say about coming to our Churches I have formerly cited at large out of Thom. a Jesu and the lawfulness of denying the person of a Clergie-man or a Religious man And the ground of all because humane Laws for the most part bind not the Subjects Conscience when there is great hazard of life as Azorius hath well taught Inst Moral To. 1. l. 8. c. 27. See the Authors words de Convers Gent. li. 5. Dub. 4. pag. 218. and Dub. 5. p. 218 219. and Dub. 6. p. 220. We may find them in our Churches and garb when their interest requires it But again I must for all these points refer the Reader to my forementioned Book A Key for Catholicks The history of the Papacie being thus briefly given you I should next briefly tell you I. What a Pope is II. What a Papist is III. What the present Papal Church is But it requireth more than this short Writing to open any one of these to the full But take this breviate CHAP. VI. What the Pope is 1. WE are not to describe the Bishop of Rome as he was at the beginning but as in that Stature to which he is since grown up And so unmeasurable a Potentate must be described to you but by parts and inadequate Conceptions And I will no more undertake to enumerate all than to Name all the Kingdoms known and unknown to us Europeans which he claimeth the Government of But I remember who it was that shewed Christ all the Kingdoms of the world and said All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me Math. 4. 9. Or as Luk. 4. 6. All this Power will I give thee and the Glory of them for that is delivered to me and to whomsoever I will I give it I. The Pope of Rome is an Usurper who from the lawful Episcopacy of one particular Church aspired to be a Bishop over many Churches and Bishops and a Metropolitan and thence to be a Patriarch and the first Patriarch in the Roman Empire in order of Dignity and entred a Contest for the Primacie with his Competitor of Constantinople which is not ended to this day And next claimed an Universal Government in the Empire as well as a Primacy And also the Government of such Neighbour Churches as had once been in the Empire or had been lately converted by any of his Clergie And lastly being made a King of Rome or Secular Prince in Italy he also claimed a Monarchy or Government over all the world under the name of Ecclesiastical All this is proved in the foregoing History of the Papacy and may better be found out by any that will peruse the History of the Church and Empire than by particular Citations II. By the name of Ecclesiastical power he understandeth not only that which is truly spiritual or sacerdotal by which Gods word is preached and applyed to particular persons by reception into Christian Communion and exclusion from it sententially But also a power of erecting Courts of Judicature in all Kingdoms to judge of cases about Ministers Temples Tythes Testaments Administration of Goods Lawfulness of Marriages Divorces and many such like in a manner of Constraint which is proper to the Magistrate Abusively calling this the Ecclesiastical Power in foro exteriore distinct from the sacerdotal in foro interiore cheating the World with words Experience fully proveth this III. For the performance of this Deceit they appropriate to Princes and other Magistrates the Titles of CIVIL or SECULAR making the world believe that as Soul and Body differ so the Pope and his Clergie being Governours of the Soul or in order to salvation excel Kings and Magistrates who are but Governours for bodily welfare and Civil Peace Whereas indeed the difference of the Offices of Christian Magistrates and Pastors is not that one is but for the Body and the other for the Soul for both are to further mens Salvation and true Religion and the obedience of Gods Laws in order thereto But it is in this that Princes and Magistrates have the Power of Governing men in things Secular and Religious within their true Cognisance by the Sword that is by external Compulsion and Coercion by Mulcts and Penalties forcibly executed whereas the Pastors have only the Charge of Teaching men Christs Doctrine and Guiding the Church in the administration of Gods Worship and by the Keys or Authority from Christ judging who is capable or uncapable of Church Communion and declaring pardon and Salvation to the penitent for their Comfort and the contrary to the impenitent for their humiliation and all this only by Word of Mouth without any Constraining force Proof of the Character Pope Innoc. 3. vid. Cosins Hist Transub p. 147 148 God made two great Lights in the Firmament of Heaven and of the Universal Church that is he instituted two Dignities which are the Pontifical Authority and the Regal Power But that which ruleth the Day that is things spiritual is the greatest and that which ruleth carnal things is the less that it may be known that the difference between Popes and Kings is such as is the difference between the Sun and the Moon If this were true the lowest Priest were incomparably more honourable or amiable than Kings as the Soul is more excellent than the Body But David Solomon Hezekiah Josiah and all good Kings did shew that Religion was the matter of their Government and the principal part of their care Read for this fully Bishop Bilson of Christian obedience Bishop Buckeridge for the Magistrates Power and Bishop Andrews Tortura Torti excellent discourses against the Papal Usurpation IV. The Office which he thus claimeth as over all the Earth is to be the Vicar of Christ or of God or the Vice-Christ or Vice-God as Kings have their Vice-Kings in remote Provinces Proved I have elsewhere cited the words of Popes saying that they are Vice-Christi and Vice-Dei at large And Pope Julius's words we holding the place of the Great God the Maker of all things and all Laws And Carol. Boverius's words Consult de Rat. fidei c. to our late King saying Besides Christ the Invisible Head of the Church there is a necessity that we acknowledge another certain visible Head subrogate to Christ and instituted of him c. And Card. Betrand's words in Biblioth Patrum that saith Almighty God had not been wise else if he had not sent One only to Govern the world under him And Boverius reason Christ was himself on Earth once a visible Monarch And if the Church had need of a visible Monarch it hath need of one still Christ said that it was necessary that he went away that the Paraclete might come whom Tertullian calleth his Agent But the Papists will not part

the Greatest be it right or wrong In the best Countries the most are too bad And bad men will have a prospering Religion and not one that will expose them to Death Banishment Imprisonment Beggary Contempt or Silence Most will be on the upper side 2. And remember that you your self here confess the scandals of some of your Romish Party and what carnal prophane ones they are Had you not confessed it I would have desired you to read two Books 1. Josep Acosta of the wicked slothful Priests in the Indies as the great hindrance of their Conversion 2. Stephanus his World of Wonders taken most out of the Book of the Queen of Navarre of the horrid Villanies of your Priests And one thing I cannot disregard I marvel not if the Papists be most bad in Spain France Italy c. or the Lutherans in Denmark Saxony or Sweden or the Calvinists in Holland or the Prelatists and Conformists in England because the most who are commonly the worst will be of the stronger side But that Greeks should be ungodly in Turky or Protestants in France or Papists in England where they are singular and under the discountenance of the Times and most hold their Religion with some self-denyal this seemeth to me a more grievous thing And if it prove true that even in England where you make the World believe that you have suffered grievously your Followers are too often found meer Formalists living in Swearing Drinking Lying Uncleanness or some of these what shall we think of such a Religion as this as in a Land of uprightness would teach men to do unjustly I wonder not what should make a Drunkard Fornicator or other debaucht Sinner to be a Papist in France Spain or Italy But what should make such a one be a Papist in England unless his Religion favour sensuality or else he think that it will yet prove the upper side I cannot easily conjecture But you accuse the Prelatick Protestant for agreeing with the Puritan in expecting Salvation by the extrinsical righteousness of Christ without him not by any interior righteousness in his own Soul Answ I told you your memory faileth you Why did you before then describe the Puritan as so well qualified within and desiring after more But were you bred among Puritans and yet talk so ignoranly and falsly This had been more tolerable in a Cochleus a Genebrard or other transmarine Calumniator that never knew us here Read but Davenant de Just and see how you slander the Conformists And read my fore-named Books and Mr. Trumans Mr. Woodbridges the Morning Lectures at S. Giles of Justif Mr. Wotton de Reconciliat Mr. Bradshaw de Justif Praefat. c. Mr. Gataker in many Books Jo. Goodwin of Justif c. and see how you slander the Puritans In a few plain words Sir the Protestants do not expect Salvation by their own personal righteousness as coordinate with Christs but as subordinate to it nor as a Righteousness so denominated from the same Reason as Christs is but from a lower Reason and so as of a lower sort That is We all hold that Gods Law to perfect man was perfect being the Effect of his perfect Holiness and required personal perpetual perfect innocency and obedience in man And that man breaking this Law was according to the Justice of it lyable to its Penalty which is temporal spiritual and eternal death or to be forsaken of that God whom he forsook and to be under the sense of his displeasure or Justice We believe that Christ Redeemed us from this Punishment by the merit of his perfect Holiness and Obedience and the satisfactory sacrificing of himself on the Cross where he was in his measure forsaken of God as in our stead and for our sins whose punishment as far as was fit for him to undergo he voluntarily undertook to suffer We believe that he never intended by this Redemption to take man from under his subjection to God or make him an ungoverned lawless Wight but that by purchase he himself as Mediator became his Lord and King and Gods chief Administrator of the Redeemed World And his Lord-Redeemer with the Will and Authority of God his Creator made him a new Law and Covenant freely giving Right to Impunity saving paternal healing Corrections and temporal death and degrees of desertion if men neglect Grace and Right to the Heavenly Glory as thus merited for us by Christ and also the Communion of the Holy Ghost on Earth to fit us by Holiness for Heaven and to conquer our sins and this to all that will by a true effectual Faith accompanyed with Repentance unfeignedly accept the Gift of God that is that will truly consent to the Baptismal Covenant taking God for their reconciled God and Father Jesus Christ for their Saviour and the Holy Ghost for their Sanctifier and Comforter renouncing the Devil the World and the Flesh and engaging themselves as in a Holy War against them as the Enemies of the blessed Trinity and them And this Covenant they must keep For as it giveth Right to Life to such Believers so it denounceth certain damnation to Unbelievers and unthankful Neglecters of so great Salvation So that when by RIGHTEOUSNESSE we mean that which answereth Gods perfect Law having no sinful imperfection we all profess that we have no such Righteousness of our own to trust in there being no man without sin and all sin by the Law of Innocency denominating the sinner unrighteous and punishable by death But instead of such a Righteousness Gods Justice is so far satisfied by the Sacrifice and perfect Righteousness of Christ as that he freely giveth us the foresaid Covenant and its Free Grace and Benefits But because we must be judged by the Redeemer according to his Law of Grace therefore we must in our selves personally have the Righteousness which that Law or Covenant hath made necessary to our Justification first and our Salvation afterwards which is first our foresaid Faith or Covenant-Consent and after to our salvation our keeping of that Covenant in true Obedience and Holiness to the end and our Victory over the three Enemies which we renounced So that briefly God justifieth as the Donor and the Judge Christ God and Man as Mediator justifieth us meritoriously as aforesaid and by donation and final sentence our Jus ad Impunitatem Gloriam our Right to Impunity and the Heavenly Glory justifieth us as our Formal Righteousness which is a Relation against the Accusation that we ought to be shut out of Heaven and damned to Hell The Covenant of Grace justifieth us by giving us Right to the Love of the Father the Grace of the Son and the Communion of the Holy Ghost Even as Gods Donative and Condonative Instrument or Act of Grace Our Personal Faith including Repentance justifieth us as the matter of our Formal Righteousness against that particular Accusation that we are Impenitent Unbelievers and so have no part in Christ and his