A27058:1044
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.
§ 30. P. 270. He saith, [The truth is, the Eastern Bishops were not so ingenuous and fair after their reconciliation with Cyril, &c.] Thus he becomes himself still an accuser of the Bishops.
§ 31. Because I say that the Judges past sentence to cast out both Stephen and Bassian from Ephesus, and all consented, he saith, [One would think here the Judges passed sentence against the consent or Inclination of the Bishops.] Ans. There is no end of answering your thinkings. I did not say that the Judges passed the Councils Sentence but their own: And whether it were against the Fore-inclination of the Council let any Reader judge, when the Judges asking the Council their sense, [Res. Episcopi clamaverunt, justi•ia Bassianum vocat: Regulae valeant. The ⟨p. 183⟩Judges answered them that their judgment was that both were to be cast out, and a third chosen, and the Council suddenly consented. If he would be believed contradicting this he must deny the Acts.
§ 31. Because I say that the Judges past sentence to cast out both Stephen and Bassian from Ephesus, and all consented, he saith, [One would think here the Judges passed sentence against the consent or Inclination of the Bishops.] Ans. There is no end of answering your thinkings. I did not say that the Judges passed the Councils Sentence but their own: And whether it were against the Fore-inclination of the Council let any Reader judge, when the Judges asking the Council their sence, [Res. Episcopi clamaverunt, justi•ia Bassianum vocat: Regulae valeant. The ⟨p. 183⟩Judges answered them that their judgment was that both were to be cast out, and a third chosen, and the Council suddenly consented. If he would be believed contradicting this he must deny the Acts.