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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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XXXV. A Council at C. P. made a Ninth Creed, leaving out [Substance and Hypostasit, The Semi-Arians for this banished the Authors.
XXXVI. A Council at Antioch cast out Miletius, and made a Tenth Creed, worse than the rest.
XXXVII. Julian Reigning, Athanasius calls a Council at Alexandria, which had almost divided East and West about the names [Hypostasit and Persona;] but that some wise men persuaded them that the words were both of the same signification; which yet was hardly entertained afterward.
XXXVIII. A Council at Antioch of Semi-Arians Petitioned Jovianus to cast out the Acacians; till they knew his mind, and then the Arian Bishops turned Orthodox.
XXXIX. At a Synod in Tyana Eustath. Sebast. denied [[Greek or Hebrew]] and the Godhead of the Holy Ghost.