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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 4
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But some may say that passion moved him to the satirical exaggeration of his own received injuries: But, 1. He speaketh not of this Council only, but of others also: 2. He acknowledged, that till the Egyptian Bishops came, he had the Council Vote for his place. 3. His spirit and all his endeavours were for peace, and not to make things worse than they were; And for peace he quit his Seat. 4. And in his Epistles to the Civil Magistrates •e afterwards wrote earnestly to them to keep the Bishops at the next Council in peace, lest they should make Religion a contempt and scandal. So that few men could worse be charged with abusive invectives than this Pious, Learned, peaceable Bishop.
But some may say that passion moved him to the satyrical exaggeration of his own received injuries: But, 1. He speaketh not of this Council only, but of others also: 2. He acknowledged, that till the Egyptian Bishops came, he had the Council Vote for his place. 3. His spirit and all his endeavours were for peace, and not to make things worse than they were; And for peace he quit his Seat. 4. And in his Epistles to the Civil Magistrates •e afterwards wrote earnestly to them to keep the Bishops at the next Council in peace, lest they should make Religion a contempt and scandal. So that few men could worse be charged with abusive invectives than this Pious, Learned, peaceable Bishop.
§. 8. In his 55th Epist. to Procopius, page 814. refusing to come to their Council, he saith, If I must write the very truth, I am of the mind to fly from (or avoid) every Meeting of Bishops: For I never saw a joyful and happy end of any Council; nor any that gave not more addition and increase to evils, than depulsion (or reformation:) For pertinacious contentions and the lusts of Domination (or Lording,) (Think me not (saith he) grievous and troublesome for writing this,) are such, as no words can express: And a man that will (there) be a Judg of others, shall sooner contract dishonesty himself, than repress the dishonesty of others.