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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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CHAP. XXIV. His 7th Chapter considered.
§ 1. THE Man had not the courage to defend the surgent Prelacy in its Manhood and Maturity, but only in its Infant and Juvenile State; nor to defend the many hundred Councils which I mentioned after the Council of Calcedon, in which either his Modesty or Cautelousness comes short of his Rd. Fathers, who some of them own the six first General Councils, and some of them eight, and some would unite with the Church of Rome, if they will abate but the last 400 Years additions.
§ 2. In his Gleanings in this 7th Chap. he over, and over, and over persuadeth his Reader, that I make or affirm that [the Bps. were the cause of all the Heresies in the world, and of all the Heresies, Schisms, and Evils that have afflicted the Church. And hath this Historian any proof of this? Or is it the melancholy fiction of his Brain? Yes, this is his proof contrary to my manifold Instances, because I say in one age, [We have a strange thing, a Heresy raised by one that was no Bishop: which I have answered before. To be then strange, and never to be at all; are not words of the same sense? But his Answers throughout do mind me of Seneca's Words, that a man that is sore complains (or cries Oh) when he doth but think you touch him.
§ 2. In his Gleanings in this 7th Chap. he over, and over, and over persuadeth his Reader, that I make or affirm that [the Bps. were the cause of all the Heresies in the world, and of all the Heresies, Schisms, and Evils that have afflicted the Church. And hath this Historian any proof of this? Or is it the melancholy fiction of his Brain? Yes, this is his proof contrary to my manifold Instances, because I say in one age, [We have a strange thing, a Heresie raised by one that was no Bishop: which I have answered before. To be then strange, and never to be at all; are not words of the same sense? But his Answers throughout do mind me of Seneca's Words, that a man that is sore complains (or cries Oh) when he doth but think you touch him.