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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

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

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