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The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended…
The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to show their dangerous error, who think that a general council, or college of bishops, is a supreme governor of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entitled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to shew their dangerous errour, who think that a general council, or colledge of bishops, is a supream governour of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entituled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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He minds me of Peters Denial, and the Disciples forsaking Christ. Alas! he is not a man that is not sensible of Humane frailty? But is it not therefore to be blamed? Why doth Scripture mention it, but that we may avoid the like? Is it to tempt others to the like? Did Christ insult when he said to Peter, Get thee behind me Satan, &c.
§ 13. He next falls into his familiar strain, to carry that ex ⟨p. 173⟩Cathedra, by sentence, which he cannot do by proof, and saith, [When I venture on Observations it's an even lay that I am out.] Ans. That is, I am out of the way of his Magistry, Preconceipt and Interest.
It is my Conciliatory words that the peaceable man is angry at, viz. [That this doleful, Contentious, Anathematizing, and ruining of each other, was about the sense of ambiguous words, and they were both of one mind in the matter and knew it not.] He cannot but confess, that my judgment of them is softer than theirs that hereticate each other. And Derodon hath fully proved that this Council when they condemned Nestorius, were of his Judgment in the whole matter, and said but the same as he.