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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.
LX. At Alexand. the Bishops party that the Council was for (Proterius) and Timothy whom Dioscorus party were for, so raged, that they murdered Proterius, and dragged his carcass in the streets, and bit his flesh: And each party still accused the other.
LX. At Alexand. the Bishops party that the Council was for (Proterius) and Timothy whom Dioscorus party were for, so reged, that they murdered Proterius, and dragg'd his carkass in the streets, and bit his flesh: And each party still accused the other.
LXI. Pulcheria (Theodosius's Sister and Martian's Wife) being for the Council, and Eudocia Theodosius's Widow for Dioscarus, they animated the several Parties of Bishops and Monks: And in Palestine Juvenal Bishop of Jerusalem was expelled, Severianus Bishop of Schythopolis killed, &c.
LXI. Pulcheria (Theodosius's Sister and Martian's Wife) being for the Council, and Eudocia Theodosius's Widdow for Dioscarus, they animated the several Parties of Bishops and Monks: And in Palestine Juvenal Bishop of Jerusalem was expelled, Severianus Bishop of Schythopolis killed, &c.
LXII. Leo the Emperor commanding obedience to the Calcedon Council, at Alexandria and Antioch the Armies of contending Bishops were in continual war, calling each other Nestorians and Eutychians; one Bishop banished by the Emperor, the contrary Bishop murdered by the people, and cast into the River; the next getting the better again, &c.
LXII. Leo the Emperour commanding obedience to the Calcedon Council, at Alexandria and Antioch the Armies of contending Bishops were in continual war, calling each other Nestorians and Eutychians; one Bishop banished by the Emperour, the contrary Bishop murdered by the people, and cast into the River; the next getting the better again, &c.