A27058:1084
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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Ans. Experience proveth that you speak your Heart. The words are no wilful Lye which agree with a mans Mind, be they never so false as disagreeable to the matter. No man was more of that Opinion than Hildebrand, that would not yield the Emperors the Investiture, nor as I before said, abate the Prince of Calaris the shaving of his Bishops Beard to save his Kingdom. Victor began with that Opinion too soon, but his Successors have these Thousand Years been as much for it as you can wish.
Ans. Experience proveth that you speak your Heart. The words are no wilful Lye which agree with a mans Mind, be they never so false as disagreeable to the matter. No man was more of that Opinion than Hildebrand, that would not yield the Emperours the Investiture, nor as I before said, abate the Prince of Calaris the shaving of his Bishops Beard to save his Kingdom. Victor began with that Opinion too soon, but his Successors have these Thousand Years been as much for it as you can wish.
2. But to whom is it that you intend this? Sure not to all: Was Bishop Laud of that mind toward the Papists if Dr. Heylin say true? Was Grotius of that mind toward them? Was Arch-Bishop Bromhall, Forbes, Beziar, Thorndike (and many more such) of that mind? No: I'll excuse you, that you meant not them and their Projects of Moderation: Nor I believe neither Cassander's, Erasmus's, Wicelius's, Sancta Clara's, Leander's, &c.
2. But to whom is it that you intend this? Sure not to all: Was Bishop Laud of that mind toward the Papists if Dr. Heylin say true? Was Grotius of that mind toward them? Was Arch-Bishop Bromhall, Forbes, Beziar, Thorndike (and many more such) of that mind? No: I'le excuse you, that you meant not them and their Projects of Moderation: Nor I believe neither Cassander's, Erasmus's, Wicelius's, Sancta Clara's, Leander's, &c.