A27058:1045
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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§ 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.
§ 32. He hath found matter for a quibble against tasting Poterius Flesh with their Teeth. Teeth taste not: Dangerous false History, or want of Learning is learnedly here discovered. When he cannot deny the most woeful, calamitous dissentions which followed the Calcedon Council, he saith, [Was it the misfortune or the fault of these only not to be able to heal the differences of the Church? Or was the defect in the Councils, or the blame to be imputed to those obstinate men that opposed the Rule established by them?]