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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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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?]
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, outragious 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?]
§ 26. P. 263. He confesseth that the Debate between the Council and the Egyptian Bishops was something too warm: but saith that heat was not altogether without reason. Ans. This is his way to confess their faults, and then rail at me for bare reciting the words of the Debate or History. But it was not without reason: He ⟨p. 182⟩