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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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XLI. Damasus in a Roman Council condemneth Sisinnius for Conventicles: For at the Election in the Church they fought for these two: And Damasus his Party one day left 137 dead bodies behind them, and got the better.
XLII. Valens by cruelty set up Arian Bishops in a great part of the Eas•.
XLIII. The first General Council at C. P. is commonly called the Second General, when yet that at Sardica, Ariminum, Sirmium, Milan, were General also: They were many good men, and did good: But how they used Nazianzen to the great grief of the Church of C. P. and how Nazianzen describeth them, I desire the Reader to take from his own words, and not from mine, or Mr. M.
XLIV. The Council at Caesar Augusta did that which made Martin separate from them and all their Councils after to his death.