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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.
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.]
LIII. What the first General Council at Ephesus did in the Cause of Nestorius I have fully opened: Derodons Evidence is undeniable, that Nestorius was Orthodox as to the Matter, though he mistook as to words, in thinking that Mary should not be called The Mother of God, but of Christ who is God. (which Luther also shows.) Yet since that Councils anathematizing him, a great body of Christians in many Eastern Kingdoms, to this day are a party hereticated by the rest. Is not such an effect of 1200 years continuance, a witness of the failing of that Council?