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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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§ 9. Seeing the Church in this sad Condition, and the Papal part so greatly vitiated, I considered how long it had so been. And I found that the Pope and his Bishops grew not up like a Mushroom in a day; but had been long in thriving to maturity: And I met with no man that could just tell what Year or what Age the disease or tumour did begin. Bishop Bromhall thinks if they will abate their last 400 years Innovations, we may have hope of agreeing with them. Bishop Gunning will own no General Councils, but the first six; some will receive eight; some but four. Mr. Morris here goeth no further in his defence of them, whatever he think. Some begin Popery with Leo the great, some with Gregory's Successor. But it is most certain, that it was first an Embryo, and next an Infant and so grew up from Childhood to maturity by degrees. And the first Church-corruption was not that which we now call Popery. And it is as certain that the tumour did neither begin nor grow up in the Bishop of Rome alone, but in other Bishops, who grew up with him, & were his strength and Councils, and he their Head.
§ 9. Seeing the Church in this sad Condition, and the Papal part so greatly vitiated, I considered how long it had so been. And I found that the Pope and his Bishops grew not up like a Mushroom in a day; but had been long in thriving to maturity: And I met with no man that could just tell what Year or what Age the disease or tumor did begin. Bishop Bromhall thinks if they will abate their last 400 years Innovations, we may have hope of agreeing with them. Bishop Gunning will own no General Councils, but the first six; some will receive eight; some but four. Mr. Morrice here goeth no further in his defence of them, whatever he think. Some begin Popery with Leo the great, some with Gregory's Successour. But it is most certain, that it was first an Embrio, and next an Infant and so grew up from Childhood to maturity by degrees. And the first Church-corruption was not that which we now call Popery. And it is as certain that the tumor did neither begin nor grow up in the Bishop of Rome alone, but in other Bishops, who grew up with him, & were his strength and Councils, and he their Head.
§ 10. It is known when the Greeks and Romans began most notably to strive which should be greatest, and how the division increased, and when and how it came to an anathematizing or excommunicating each other.