A27045:310
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members…
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far heretics are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far hereticks are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1660
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And its no credit to your cause, that this Hilary was (by Baronius confession) a man of extraordinary holiness and knowledge, and is Sainted among you, and hath his Day in your Calendar. And yet Valentinian had great provocation to interpose (if Leo told him no untruths, for his own advantage): For it was no less then laying siege to Cities, to force Bishops on them without their consent, that he is accused of; which shows to what odious pride and usurpation, prosperity even then had raised the Clergy: fitter to be lamented with floods of tears, then to be defended by any honest Christian: Leo himself may be the principal instance.
And its no credit to your cause, that this Hilary was (by Baronius confession) a man of extraordinary holiness and knowledge, and is Sainted among you, and hath his Day in your Calendar. And yet Valentinian had great provocation to interpose (if Leo told him no untruths, for his own advantage): For it was no less then laying siege to Cities, to force Bishops on them without their consent, that he is accused of; which shews to what odious pride and usurpation, prosperity even then had raised the Clergy: fitter to be lamented with floods of tears, then to be defended by any honest Christian: Leo himself may be the principal instance.
18. You next return to the Council of Chalcedon, Act. 1. & seq. where 1. You refer me ⟨p. 168⟩to that Act. 1. where is no such matter: but you add [& seq.] that I may have an hundred and ninety pages in Folio to peruse, and then you call for a speedy answer: But the Epistle to Leo is in the end of Act. 16. pag. (Bin.) 139. 2. And there you do but falsely thrust in the word [thou governest us] and so you have made your self a witness, because you could find none: The words are [Quibus tu quidem sicut membris caput praeeras, in his qui tuum tenebant ordinem benevolentiam praeferens: Imperatores vero adornandum decentissime praesidebant.] Now [to go before] with you must be [to Govern]: If so, then Aurelius at the Council of Carthage, and others in Councils that presided, did govern them. It was but [benevolentiam praetulisse] that they acknowledged: And that the Magistrates not only presided indeed, but did the work of Judges and Governors, is express in the Acts; its after wrote in that Epistle [Haec sunt, quae tecum, qui spiritu praesens eras, & complacere tanquam fratribus deliberasti, & qui pene per tuorum vicariorum sapientiam videbaris, à nobis effecimus] And [haec à tua sanctitate fuerint inchoata] and yet [Qui enim locum vestrae sanctitatis obtinent, iis ita constitutis vehementer resister tentaverunt.] From all