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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Wernerus Fascial and my Key p. 28 29 30. Wernerus and others say that Silvester the second was made Pope by the help of the Devil to whom he did homage that all might go as he would have it but he quickly met with the End that such have that place their hope in deceitful Devils When one Pope cuts another in pieces and casteth his Careass into the Water as unworthy of Christian Burial as you may find in the Lives of Formosus and Sergius must we yet suppose such the Lawful Rulers of the World The fourteenth Schisme saith Wernerus was scandalous and full of confusion between Benedict the Ninth and five others Which Benedict was wholly vitious and therefore being damned appeared in a monstrous and horrid shape his Head and Tail were like an Asses the rest of his Body like a Bear saying I thus appear because I lived like a Beast In this Schisme saith the Author there was no less than six Popes at once 1. Benedict was expulsed 2. Silvester the Third gets in but is cast out again and Benedict restored 3. But being again cast out Gregory the Sixth is put into his place Who because he was ignorant of Letters caused another Pope to be Consecrated with him to perform Church-Offices which was the fourth Which displeased many and therefore a third is chosen instead of the two that were fighting with one another But Henry the Emperour coming in deposed them all and chose Clement the Second who was the sixth of them that were alive at once In my Opinion this Gregory the Sixth shewed himself the honestest Man of them all Who though he could not read himself had the humility by chusing a Partner to confess his ignorance And I am perswaded if the question had come before him which was the truest Translation of the Hebrew or Greek Text or such like the Man would scarce have pretended to Infallibility in judging The nineteenth Schisme was between Innocent the Second and Peter Leonis and Innocent saith the Author got the better because he had more on his side A good Title no doubt and thence a good Succession The twentieth Schisme saith Wernerus was great between Alexander the Third and four others and it lasted seventeen years After Nicolas the Fourth saith he there was no Pope for two years and a half where was the Church then and Celestine the Fifth that succeeded him resigning it Boniface the Eighth entered that stiled himself Lord of the whole World in Spirituals and Temporals of whom it was said he entered as a Fox lived as a Lyon and dyed like a Dog I have as good hope of the salvation of Celestine the Fifth and Felix the Fifth as any two of them because as they were drawn in as simple Men in ignorance so their resignation shewed some hope that they repented The 22. Schisme saith Wernerus ad an 1373. was the worst and most subtil Schisme of all that were before it for it was so perplexed that the most Learned and Conscientious Men were not able to find out to whom they should adhere And it was continued for forty years to the great scandal of the whole Clergie and the great loss of souls because of Heresies and other evils that then sprung up because there was no discipline in the Church against them And therefore from this Urban the Sixth to the time of Martin the Fifth I know not who was Pope Nor I neither nor any one else I think The twenty third Schisme was between Felix the Fifth and Eugenius the Fourth of which saith Wernerus Hence arose great contention among the Writers of this Matter pro contra and they cannot agree to this day For one part saith that a Council is above the Pope the other part on the contrary saith no but the Pope is above the Council God grant his Church Peace c. The Christian World being all in Divisions because of sidings for these several Popes the Emperours were constrained to call General Councils to end the Schismes That at Constance thought they had done the Work but they left Work enough for that at Basil and more than they could do When they found not a fit Man among the Clergy they chose a Lay-man to be Pope the Duke of Savoy a Man noted for honest Simplicity and Piety and called him Felix the Fifth But Eugenius who was cast out by the Council for his wickedness kept the place and made the Duke glad to resign and leave the Popedome Should I stay to tell you after the Barbarous Age 900. what work the Popes made in the World how many thousand they forced to death upon the Wars at Jerusalem how many score thousand Waldenses and Albigenses they Murdered How they forced Kings to kiss their Feet and trod on the Neck of Frederick the Emperour How they divided the Empire by a Rebellious War against the Emperours Henry the Third and Fourth And how they Armed their Subjects and Neighbours against them yea the Emperours Son against his own Father And how the Writers of those times are divided and open the lamentable Divisions of the Ages in which they lived What work they made here against the Kings of England and what passed between Boniface the Eighth and the King of France and the Coin on which he Stamped his Resolution to destroy Babylon c. you would little think that either Holiness or Unity were any Property of the Roman Church Qu. But if most did not favour them how did they ascend to so great power Ans 1. The old Name of the Imperial Rome and the Popes Primacie in the Empire kept up a Veneration for him in the ignorant 2. The Eastern Emperours seated at Constantinople were so taken up with Wars Rebellions and other Difficulties at home that they could not take sufficient care of the West but left the Popes too much advantage to grow great and wickedness also increasing among them though the Princes presence kept their Patriarchs in more order and submission than the Popes that were become masterless provoked God to give them up to be conquered by the Mahometan Turks And by the Ambition of the Popes the Emperours wanted the due assistance of their Western Subjects to resist their Enemies And the Pope took the advantage of the Eastern Emperours weakness to lead the West into a settled Rebellion offering the King of France the Western Empire which he embraced the Pope making his Bargain with him for his own advantage 3. And in the Wars of Christian Princes the Pope used to obtrude his Arbitration in such a manner as tended to his gain so that he shortly got to be a temporal Prince of a great part of Italy and to have Crowns and Kingdoms made feudatary to him 4. And he got Germany to be broken into so many small Republicks and Liberties as that they were not able to unite to resist him 5. And he took great advantage of the religious humours of any that were devout