A27058:1035
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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3. What Bishops were they that persuaded him to make a Law to confirm the Ephesine, Eutychian Council? Was it not Dioscorus and the Eutychians? Were they not Bishops? Did they not do it? Yea, doth not this man oft revile them far more bitterly than ever I did, and revile me for speaking so charitably of them? Would you ever have expected that the same man should have so reviled me, for saying that these Eutychian Bishops prevailed with a good Emperor to confirm that Council of Eutychians?
3. What Bishops were they that persuaded him to make a Law to confirm the Ephesine, Eutychian Council? Was it not Dioscorus and the Eutychians? Were they not Bishops? Did they not do it? Yea, doth not this man oft revile them far more bitterly than ever I did, and revile me for speaking so charitably of them? Would you ever have expected that the same man should have so reviled me, for saying that these Eutychian Bishops prevailed with a good Emperour to confirm that Council of Eutychians?
4. Is it a sin not to speak hardlier of so good a Prince, who after repented and punished his Wife and Eunuch for persuading him? It was a blaming him to tell to what he was persuaded.
Truly the mans anger here for my blaming the Eutychian Bishops, in condemnation of whom he hath poured out so much more than I, doth make me think that there is somewhat in the sound of some words, that turns his wrath this way or that: When he hears the name of an Eutychian, away with them, speak not easily of them. When the same men are called Bishops, it's malice, outrageous bitterness to blame them for getting a Law to confirm that called an Heretical, Murdering, Latroci•ian Council. His words are, p. 146. [Were there ever greater violences committed than in that infamous Conventicle at Ephesus?]