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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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2. Luther de Conciliis first accuseth Nestorius as a Heretic, denying Christ's Godhead, or holding two Persons; And presently ⟨p. 175⟩retracts it, and confesseth he was seduced by believing the Papists, but (though he had not read much of the Councils, but what he had gathered out of the Tripartite and such Historians) yet he gathered from the Passages of the History, that the difference lay only in words, which he openeth at large, and yet turns it sharply against Nestorius, for thinking that we may not speak of Christs Godhead or Manhood by communicated names or Attributes, and greatly rejoiceth that this serveth his turn in his Opinion about Consubstantiation and Sacramental words.
2. Luther de Conciliis first accuseth Nestorius as a Heretick, denying Christ's Godhead, or holding two Persons; And presently ⟨p. 175⟩retracts it, and confesseth he was seduced by believing the Papists, but (though he had not read much of the Councils, but what he had gathered out of the Tripartite and such Historians) yet he gathered from the Passages of the History, that the difference lay only in words, which he openeth at large, and yet turns it sharply against Nestorius, for thinking that we may not speak of Christs Godhead or Manhood by communicated names or Attributes, and greatly rejoiceth that this serveth his turn in his Opinion about Consubstantiation and Sacramental words.
Because I will leave nothing in doubt with you, but whether Luther was before my days, and lest you say again that I cite Books which I see not, I will give you some of his words, beginning earlier, (not translating lest I have not skill enough) but they are so like mine, that I doubt you will be no Lutheran.
Because I will leave nothing in doubt with you, but whether Luther was before my days, and lest you say again that I cite Books which I see not, I will give you some of his words, beginning earlier, (not translating lest I have not skill enough) but they are so like mine, that I doubt you will be no Lutherane.