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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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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?
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 shews.) 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?
LIV. The Bishops of C. P. and Alexandria striving which should be greatest, a Council at C. P. decided it for C. P. where Theodoret was for Alexandria, and fell under displeasure.
LV. Leo M. Bishop of Rome, claims the title of Head of the Catholic Church.
LV. Leo M. Bishop of Rome, claims the title of Head of the Catholick Church.