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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
L. The Diospolitan Council absolved Pelagius. Divers Carthage Councils condemned him. P. Innocent condemned him. Zosimus once absolved him, and condemned his accusers.
The Bishops cast out for Simony, I will not number here.
LI. The Contentions between Boniface and Eulalius, and others after them to get the Bishopric of Rome, are so many as I will not number them. And the striving of three Bishops successively against the African Fathers for the Roman super-eminence and Appeals to Rome, are commonly known.
LI. The Contentions between Bonisace and Eulalius, and others after them to get the Bishoprick of Rome, are so many as I will not number them. And the striving of three Bishops successively against the African Fathers for the Roman super-eminence and Appeals to Rome, are commonly known.
LII. One of Bishop Boniface's Decrees is, That [No Bishop shall be brought before any Judge, Civil or Military, either for any Civil or Criminal Cause.]