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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

name p. 47. What men many Bishops and Conformists have been and are in England p. 48. The Religion which is uppermost right or wrong will be professed usually by the most and therefore by bad men p. 49. It is worse with the Papists who are many very bad even where they differ from superiours and suffer ibid. His accusations of Puritanes and Prelaticks Protestants about imputed Righteousness and inherent confuted A true description of the Protestants judgment of justifying Righteousness p. 51 52 c. His derision of Imputed Righteousness as a Mummery p. 54 55. His gross slander that we are for meer Imputed Holiness p. 55. The true middle way about Indifferent Rituals p. 56. I. Of his charge on Prelatists for silencing Puritanes for not observing Fasts c. which they neglect themselves p. 57. Puritanes and Papists fasting 2. Of wax tapers on the Altar p. 58. 3. Of the Sign of the Cross p. 58 59. 4. Of the real presence p. 60. 5. Of Confession and Absolution p. 61. 6. Of bowing at the Name Jesus and Images p. 62. 7. Of the Surplice Girdle Stole and Casuble p. 63. 8. Of praying for the Dead p. 64. 9. Of the Government of the Pope and Councils p. 65. 1. Whether Gods Wisdom require it 2. Civil and Ecclesiastick Monarchy of the whole world Compared p. 66 67. 3. Is the Pope Universal Apostle or Teacher p. 55. 4. Whether the Pope be Head but in the Vacancy of Councils p. 66. 5. Most of the Christian World by far are no Papists 68. 6. The Pope dissenteth from General Councils and so far from the Universal Church we own them when he doth not 69. 7. The difference between the Kings Headship and the Popes 37. 8. Puritanes are for the Kings supremacie 70. 9. How far they submit their judgment to the Churches p. 70. 10. The Church teacheth us the Faith but may not judge in partem utramlibet viz. that there is no God no Christ no Heaven c. p. 71. II. It 's Schismatical and worse to feign that various habite Gestures Meats c. make various Religions Q. 1. Do variety of Liturgies make various Religions 2. Is not Religion more concerned in the Papists Doctrinal Differences among themselves about Predestination Grace Free-will the immaculate conception and hundreds more in the School Doctors and about the deposing excommunicating and killing Kings and about all the Controversies mentioned by the Jansenists in the Jesuits Morals and by Mr. Clarkson in the Practical Divinity of the Papists than in variety of Clothes Formes or Ceremonies And is it not as laudable for Protestants to hold Union and Communion with them that use not the same words or rites as in the Church of Rome to tolerate without so much as any disowning censure the foresaid Doctrinal Differences about King killing when excommunicate Murder Adultery Fornication Perjury Lying Stealing c. mentioned in the foresaid Books p. 72. CHAP. IV. H. W's ill forming Accusations which he can best answer p. 77. What Grotius meant by Papists p. 79. I. Of Papists Image-worship p. 79. II. Of Popes Pardons p. 80. III. Their praying to the Virgin Mary 83. IV. Latine prayers 84. V. Implicite belief in Teachers 85. VI. Preferring the Churches Laws to Gods 87. VII Obedience 88. CHAP. V. THe true History of the Papacie its original and growth 94. 1. The ancient Church took not the Papacie to be of Gods institution but Mans fully proved p. 99. c. 2. The Roman Primacie was ever but one Empire and not all the Christian People in the world proved p. 103 c. 3. Councils were General only as to the Empire and not the World p. 104. Five exceptions p. 106. Remarks upon the Africans pretended schism Austin being one p. 112. The not able words of Mel. Canus against the Roman Universality 113. The means of the Popes last growth to maturity 119. The doctrines by which they do their work p. 122. 1. Depressing the Scriptures sufficiency and crying up their Traditions which are again conjuted 123. 2. Pretending Antiquity and Universality 125. Both confuted The objection of Heresie and Schism to other Churches answered p. 127. 3. Aggravating our Divisions and boasting of their Unity p. 128. Even the scandalous contending Sects among Protestants have more Unity with each other than the Papists proved 4. Their vile Counsel to men to suspect all Religion and suspend it to make them Papists Boverius to our late King p. 131. CHAP. VI. WHat the Pope is in forty Characters or inadequate conceptions of him p. 134. c. CHAP. VII WHat a Papist is The word PAPIST is equivocal Many sorts are called Papists that differ both in the Foundation and the very Form and the Subject and the Terminus of Church Power and are not formally one Church as is commonly thought pag. 165. A PAPIST of the most learned sort described who placeth the Authority Universal and the Infallibility in the Pope and Council agreeing Thirty Properties or Characters of them The first about the Resolution of their Faith into the Authority or Infallibility of the Church proposing How Protestants resolve their Faith and how they take it from their Teachers p. 169. c. See the rest CHAP. VIII WHat the Papists Church called the Roman Catholick Church is in twenty Characters p. 184. CHAP. IX TWenty Properties of the Protestant's Religion as it differeth from Popery 187. ERRATA PAge 26. line 28. for Turrian read Pisanus p. 76. l. 7. for in r. it p. 97. l. 21. r. Presbyters p. 93. l. 20. r. Roman p. 94. l. 2. for or r. of p. 107. l. 1. for Gothes r. Vandals p. 110. l. 4. dele and. p 115. l. 13. for Com. r. Corn. p. 123. l. 11. r. Libraries p. 156. l. 28. r. Greatreaks Errata in Roman Tradition c. Page 18. l. 1. for most real r. Moral p. 20. l. 5. r. Georgians p. 29. l. 16. r. Sirmium p. 37. l. 5. for sind r. said

and allowed them so many and various Societies and with so great Priviledges as obliged them generally to uphold and serve him Though he cruelly persecuted all that were against his Power and Interest yet he allowed almost all the Diversities of such as would but unite in him and serve him 6. And as he so twisted his own and all his Clergies Interest that they were all ready to obey and defend him against their several Princes and thereby had a great power in every Christian State in Europe so keeping all his Clergie unmarryed their wealth still accumulated and flowed into the Church And the Eastern Empire being first weakned and then overthrown and the Western Nations kept weak and in continual Wars against each other there was none well able to resist his Pride but one party still was ready to flatter him partly to keep their own Clergy in Peace and partly to have his help against their Enemies And the grand Cheat by which they were commonly deceived was that they lookt more at his present possession of Primacie than at the reason and right by which he claimed it and so he that had been Prime Patriarch in one Empire set up by the Prince still claimed the right of the same places when the Empire was dissolved as if the Subjects of the Kings of France Spain c. must obey him because they did so when they were the Subjects of Constantine Theodosius Valentinian c. For by little and little he changed his Title mentioned in the Council of Calcedon into a pretended Divine Right and so they that would not have obeyed him as set up by Caesar and his Councils obeyed him as if he had been set up by God For the name of St. Peter and his Chair and Successour was used as the common blind And next to that he did by degrees change his claim of a Primacie in the Empire into a claim of Primacie in all the World and his claim of a meer Primacie into a claim of Soveraignty or Governing Monarchy If you ask me how could he blind Men so far as to make such a change You seem not to know Man-kind nor to observe common experience Do you not consider what power the Clergie had every where got with the People What an advantage possession and St. Peters name were And how lamentably ignorant they kept the People Do we not see that even in our more knowing times yea among Protestants yea with some Divines the evident distinction between their Humane Right and their pretended Divine Right and between an Universal Council or Church of the Empire and of the whole World have not been sufficiently observed in our Disputes against them And the additional Countries of voluntary Subjects in Brittain Hungary Sweden Denmark c. which of later times since his Imperial Primacie have fallen in to him have much helped to blind the people herein and to serve his Claim as by Divine Right For which ends his Emissaries have taken great pains at the East and West Indies in China and Japan and Congo and once they made an attempt in Abassia and among the Greeks and in many other Nations of the World laudably seeking to win some Heathens to Christ that they might win them to the Pope and turbulently seeking to disturb the Greeks and other Christian Churches to draw them to the obedience of the Pope The Doctrines by which they promote their design are more than I may now stay to open I. One of the chief is by depressing the Honour of the sacred Scriptures as insufficient to acquaint us with all Gods will that is necessary to our salvation without supplemental Tradition that so all men might be brought to depend on them as the Keepers of Tradition But 1. Is their Tradition yet written in any of their own Books or not If not where are they kept And who knoweth what they are Is it not strange that so many Doctors in so many Ages all remembring them would none of them ever write them down Are they in the Memory of the Pope only What of those that could not read or that were condemned as Hereticks of Infidels Then all the World must receive them from the Popes Memory If so must it be Word or Writing And had he no Memory of them before he was Pope But if it be in other Mens Memories that your unwritten Traditions are kept in whose is it If in all the Doctors of your Church why did not Luther Melancthon Pet. Martyr and the rest that turned from you know them Or did they suddenly forget them all when they turned Protestants And how vast must your necessary Religion be if yet it must have more in it unwritten than is to be found in all your great Volumes of Councils and your huge Library But I suppose you will say that all your unwritten Traditions are now written If so they are not unwritten And how long have they been written and by whom If Fathers and Sons could keep them unwritten in memory a thousand years why not 1100 and why not 1600 c. If they were written in the beginning where be the Books Are they not such as other Christians can read and understand as well as you or an illiterate Pope If there be a necessity of having them in writing now was there not the same necessity to former Ages 2. I suppose you will send us to your Councils for those Traditions But if the Bishops know them not before they come to the Council how do they begin to know them then Do they go thither for a new miraculous Revelation of an old Tradition left with the whole Church 1. But do not Councils oft determine things confessedly uncertain to the Church before and yet out of utter uncertainty it suddenly becometh an Article of Faith For Instance the great Council at Basil saith Bin. sess 30. p. 80. A hard Question hath been in divers parts and before this Synod about the Conception of the glorious Virgin Mary and the beginning of her Sanctification Some saying that the Virgin and her Soul was for some time or instant of time actually under Original Sin Others on the contrary saying that from the beginning of her Creation God loving her gave her Grace by which preserving and freeing that blessed Person from the Original Spot We having diligently lookt into the Authorities and Reasons which for many years past have in publick relation on both sides been alledged before this holy Synod and having seen many other things about it and weighed them by mature consideration do Define and Declare That the Doctrine affirming That the glorious Virgin Mary the Mother of God by the singular preventing and operating Grace of God was never actually under Original Sin but was ever free from all Original and actual Sin and was holy and immaculate is to be approved held and embraced of all Catholicks as godly and consonant to Church-worship Catholick Faith right Reason

Councils and what parts of them the Pope meant to approve and what not as by Pope Martin 5. his Conciliariter appeareth that there is no certainty and no end XV. It is a Church that hath almost laid by the ancient Discipline of Christs appointment and instead of it hath set up partly Auricular Confession when it should be Publick and partly a tyrannical sort of hostile proclaiming their Adversaries excommunicate without hearing them and forbidding Gods Word and Worship to whole Kingdoms Saith Learned Albaspineus a Bishop Observ 1. pag. 1. If ever any one in this Age was deprived of Communion which I know not whether it ever fell out it was only from the receiving of the Eucharist In the other parts of his life he retained the same familiarity and converse with other Believers which he had before he was excommunicated XVI It is a Church that is upheld by Flames and Blood distrusting the ancient Discipline and the meer Protection of the Magistrate and the proper work of his Office The foresaid 12. General Council at Laterane proveth it besides Inquisitions and bloody Executions XVII It is a Church that cherisheth ignorance in the matters of Salvation Proved 1. By forbidding the reading of the Scriptures translated without Licence 2. Their Prayers in an unknown Tongue 3. The quality of their commonest Members XVIII It is a Church that militateth against Christian Love 1. By their foresaid condemning the most of Christians 2. By the foresaid bloody Religion and Execution XIX It is a Church which hath often damned it self one Pope and Council damning others As is proved XX. It is a Church which indeed is no Church according to their own Rules the Pope indeed being no Pope and the General Councils no General Councils as is proved And if it were one it could not possibly be certainly known to be so because the Pope who is an essentiating part cannot be certainly known As is proved both as to Election Ordination and all that is necessary to a Right and Title As to the Doctrines which they hold contrary to the Scriptures I have named many of them elsewhere in my Key pag. 39. 142 143 c. And others more largely And thus I have told you what I take a Pope a Papist and the Papal Church to be But you must remember that as the same man may be a visible Christian or Member of the true Universal Church as headed by Christ and a visible Papist or Member of the Sectarian Church as headed by the Pope so I judge none of you as in the first respect but allow you the same Charity proportionably as I do other erring Sects And especially to those many thousands who adhere to a Church which they understand not and profess that in gross which in particulars they themselves abhor Of which number I am not hopeless your self W. H. to be one CHAP. IX How our Religion differeth from the Papists AND now out of all this it is easie for you to gather how our Religion differeth from the Papists I shall recite but a few of the Differences leaving you to collect the rest from what is said of theirs I. Our Religion is wholly Divine or made by God For so is the holy Scripture which is all ours But the Papists super additions are made by men Even Popes and Councils under pretence of Declaring Expounding Governing Judging c. II. The Religion of Protestants is no bigger nor no other in the Essentials than the Sacramental Covenant with God the Father Son and Holy Ghost expounded in the Creed Lords Prayer and Decalogue And in the Integrals no bigger nor other than the holy Canonical Scriptures But the Papists is as big as all the Decrees of all General Councils added to all the Bible if not the Popes Decretals also and uncertain Traditions Tell us not of our 39 Articles and other Church Confessions as contrary to this For those Confessions all profess what I here say And you may as well tell us of our other Books and Sermons Our question is not of mens Subjective Religion For so each person hath one of his own And it cannot be known but by knowing what is in each mans mind And our Books and Confessions are as is aforesaid but the Expression of our sense of that which is our Regular Objective Religion And we are ready to confess and amend any misconception but our Objective Religion which is the Rule and Law of our Faith is only Divine III. Our Religion is known even the Sacred Bible But yours is unknown what are approved Councils and what decrees are intended to be de fide and what temporal and what perpetual and how far the Popes Decretals bind and whether all Isidore Mercator's Decretals be the Popes with abundance of the like IV. Our Religion is owned by you and every word confessed to be Divine and Infallible But your added Popery is disowned by us as sinful presumptuous and false V. Our Religion is fixed and unchangeable for so you confess the holy Scriptures to be But yours is still swelling bigger and bigger while Councils will increase it and hath no certain bounds VI. Our Religion is only that ancient one delivered by the Holy Ghost in the Apostles and so is certainly Apostolical your additions are Novelties since brought in VII Our Religion is Infallible Holy Pure your additions are fallible contradictory sinful oft contrary to plain Scripture condemning one another VIII Our Religion is Universal owned by all the Christian World in the Essentials and in the Main in the Integrals that is the Scripture Greeks Papists Armenians Abassines and all other parties that are Christians own it But your additions are some disowned by one part of Cristians and some by another and some by all save your selves IX Our Religion therefore is the true terms of Catholick concord according to Vincent Lerinens Doctrine quod ab omnibus semper ubique receptum est But your additions are the very Engine of the dividing Enemy by which he hath long kept the Christian World distracted by discord with all the calamitous effects and consequents X. Our Religion hath a certain Rule for the ending of all controversies so far as there is hope of ending them in this world All men will rest in the Judgment of God and his word in all such necessary things is plainer than all your General Councils But your Humane Authority is such as fighteth with it self and all the world and which the Universal Church never yet received nor will ever rest in XI Our Religion owneth a certain lawful Government appointed by God which well used may keep just order in the world That is Parents in Families Pastors in such particular Churches as Christ hath instituted as join for personal Communion in holy Doctrine Worship and Conversation which they are indeed capable of Overseeing and Governing by Sacred Doctrine in Christs way And Associations or Correspondencies of these Pastors for concord And