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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Eighth accused Point.
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5. But we cannot say, that yet the Church hath been so low since the days of Constantine, that all Princes have disowned the Essentials of Christianity, and we hope it never will be so.
6. But all Ages and parts of the Church, have not been equally pure and sound: In some Ages the Arians were most: In the Reign of Theodosius Junior, Anastasius, &c. the Eutychians prevailed: In the days of Philippicus the Monothelites prevailed, so that at one of their Councils Binius saith, There were Innumerable Bishops: In one Emperors time those prevailed that were against Images; in Irene's and Theodora's ⟨p. 53⟩times, those that were for them: Sometime the Bishop of Rome had most Power, and sometime the Bishop of Constantinople, and Alexandria: For an Hundred years, even much of Italy forsook him, and set up a Patriarch at Aquileia as their Head: Through many Ages the Citizens of Rome themselves expelled him or Fought against him.
6. But all Ages and parts of the Church, have not been equally pure and sound: In some Ages the Arrians were most: In the Reign of Theodosius Junior, Anastasius, &c. the Eutichians prevailed: In the days of Philippicus the Monothelites prevailed, so that at one of their Councils Binius saith, There were Innumerable Bishops: In one Emperours time those prevailed that were against Images; in Irene's and Theodora's ⟨p. 53⟩times, those that were for them: Sometime the Bishop of Rome had most Power, and sometime the Bishop of Constantinople, and Alexandria: For an Hundred years, even much of Italy forsook him, and set up a Patriarch at Aquileia as their Head: Through many Ages the Citizens of Rome themselves expelled him or Fought against him.