A27058:1085
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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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.
But towards such as I am, you have been as firm to that Principle as any one of our Enemies could wish. In 1660, 1661. it ⟨p. 193⟩was most effectually improved; and you have attained much of the fruits then foretold: and ever since have been unmoveably and prevailingly true to it.
3. But this maketh some men the Distracters of the Church, if not the greatest, which truly I have better thoughts of: Such as Junius, Paraeus, Amyraldus, Le Blanke, Davenant, Ward, Usher, Holdsworth, Morton, Hall, &c. And lately when we were preparing for the Kings Return, Bp. Brownrig, and after his death Dr. Gawden, Dr. Gulston, Dr. Allen, Dr. Bernard, and diverse such did offer themselves to a Treaty for Moderation: And since then Dr. Wilkins, Dr. Burton, Dr. Tillotson, and in diebus illis Dr. Stilling fleet have been guilty of this crime, of distracting the Church by projects of Moderation: But I can name the Bps. that were not guilty of it.