A27058:1022
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 21. Yet now my hand is in, you shall see further how much Luther was for the same that I have written. [Qui volet poterit ulterius legere acta Concilii, privata opera. Ego ad taedium & nauseam usque legi ista; ejusmodi Chaos ceremoniarum & confusionum est ibi, ut videatur recte judicasse Greg. Naz. qui Synodis eruditioribas & sedatioribus interfuit,—& scribit [Sic affectus sum si dicenda est veritas. ut malim omnes Episcoporum conventus vitare, quia nullius Synodi finem vidi bonum, aut qui magis tolleret mala quam augeret. Nam cupiditas contentionis & principatus, & aemulatio vincunt rationem. Ut profecto miror quod propter haec verba non dudum eum excommunicaverunt ut atrocissimum haereticum. Sed quid sit quod dicit in Synodis Episcopos certasse ambition, superbia, [Greek or Hebrew], habes in hac Synodo clarissimum exempium. Quod autem certum sit quod hic dicit see nullius Synodi vidisse finem bonum, docent nos historiae: Nam Ariana haeresis jocus fuit ante Nicaenum Concilium prae illa confusione quam ipsi post Concilium excitaverunt, (that was not long of the Synod.) Talis etiam suit Macedonici & Nestoriani Concilii. Nam illa pars quae est condemnat a eo suit conjunctior, ut tali specie concordiae. & unitatis suas praestigias pingerent quasi nulli justa ratione damnari possent. Subinde excitarunt major a certamina contra Concilia quae ipsi non recte intelligebant.—P. 247. Illud possum facillime probare quod miser ille Pastor in Hippone S. Augustinus plus docuit quam omnia Concilia—Dicam & quiddam amplius: Majus Lumen accedit Doctrinae Christianae ex Catechismo puerili quam ex omnibus Conciliis, & oratio Dominica & decem praecepta plus continent doctrinae & eruditionis quam omnia Concilia.
§ 21. Yet now my hand is in, you shall see further how much Luther was for the same that I have written. [Qui volet poterit ulterius legere acta Concilii, privata opera. Ego ad taedium & nauseam usque legi ista; ejusmodi Chaos ceremoniarum & confusionum est ibi, ut videatur recte judicasse Greg. Naz. qui Synodis eruditioribas & sedatioribus interfuit,—& scribit [Sic affectus sum si dicenda est veritas. ut malim omnes Episcoporum conventus vitare, quia nullius Synodi finem vidi bonum, aut qui magis tolleret mala quam augeret. Nam cupiditas contentionis & principatus, & aemulatio vincunt rationem. Ut profecto miror quod propter haec verba non dudum eum excommunicaverunt ut atrocissimum haereticum. Sed quid sit quod dicit in Synodis Episcopos certasse ambitione, superbia, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, habes in hac Synodo clarissimum exempium. Quod autem certum sit quod hic dicit se nullius Synodi vidisse finem bonum, docent nos historiae: Nam Ariana haeresis jocus fuit ante Nicaenum Concilium prae illa confusione quam ipsi post Concilium excitaverunt, (that was not long of the Synod.) Talis etiam suit Macedonici & Nestoriani Concilii. Nam illa pars quae est condemnat a eo suit conjunctior, ut tali specie concordiae. & unitatis suas praestigias pingerent quasi nulli justa ratione damnari possent. Subinde excitarunt major a certamina contra Concilia quae ipsi non recte intelligebant.—P. 247. Illud possum facillime probare quod miser ille Pastor in Hippone S. Augustinus plus docuit quam omnia Concilia—Dicam & quiddam amplius: Majus Lumen accedit Doctrinae Christianae ex Catechismo puerili quam ex omnibus Conciliis, & oratio Dominica & decem praecepta plus continent doctrinae & eruditionis quam omnia Concilia.