Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…

I need not tell them of the sad work made at Ariminum and Syrmium, and oft at Rome, Constantinople and every great Episcopal Seat: nor of the bloodshed between Competitors, at the Election of Damasus; nor of the separation of St. Martin from the Synod of Bishops led by Ithacius and Idacius; nor of the difference of him and Ambrose from the rest about the compliances with Maximus. The World knoweth of the doleful Rupture that hath continued between the Roman and the Greek Church about a thousand years; And of the many Schisms at Rome by various Anti-Popes, even at once above forty years together; And of the reason of the calling of the Councils of Constance and Basil to end them; And how the King of Rome keeps up his Kingdom to this day; what work he hath made with Frederick, the Henrys, and other German Emperors; what divisions this caused among the Clergy; what blood he caused to be shed for Jerusalem, and how many thousands of the Waldenses have at divers times been slaughtered; what work the Inquisition hath made in Spain and Belgia and elsewhere; and the flames of Persecution in England, and almost in all Christian Lands; what work the Holy League did make in France, and the English Bishops in many a War with their ⟨image 9⟩Kings; besides the case of Becket and such others; By whose instigation two hundred thousand Protestants were lately murdered in Ireland, and many again in Piedmont; I say to tell such things as these to those that are acquainted with Church History, is vain. And I would those that yet think cruelty the best way to set up themselves (or Religion, if that must bear the name) and to repress their adversaries (or Schisms,) would but (among many others) read the Epistle of great Thuanus before his Works to Henry King of France.

I need not tell them of the sad work made at Ariminum and Syrmium, and oft at Rome, Constantinople and every great Episcopal Seat: nor of the bloodshed between Competitors, at the Election of Damasus; nor of the separation of St. Martin from the Synod of Bishops led by Ithacius and Idacius; nor of the difference of him and Ambrose from the rest about the complyances with Maximus. The World knoweth of the doleful Rupture that hath continued between the Roman and the Greek Church about a thousand years; And of the many Schisms at Rome by various Anti-Popes, even at once above forty years together; And of the reason of the calling of the Councils of Constance and Basil to end them; And how the King of Rome keeps up his Kingdom to this day; what work he hath made with Frederick, the Henries, and other German Emperours; what divisions this caused among the Clergie; what blood he caused to be shed for Jerusalem, and how many thousands of the Waldenses have at divers times been slaughtered; what work the Inquisition hath made in Spain and Belgia and elsewhere; and the flames of Persecution in England, and almost in all Christian Lands; what work the Holy League did make in France, and the English Bishops in many a War with their