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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.
LXVI. Faelix of Rome, with 77 Bishops, excommunicate Acacius of C. P. (with a [Nunquam Anathematis vinculis exuendus) and their own two Bishops that obeyed the Emperor in communicating. The Schism between Laurentius and Symmachus, came to blood-shed, when five or six Councils laboured to heal it. Symmachus excommunicateth the Emperor and Bishop of C. P. as communicating with Heretics; but not an Arian King then at Rome.
LXVI. Faelix of Rome, with 77 Bishops, excommunicate Acacius of C. P. (with a [Nunquam Anathematis vinculis exuendus) and their own two Bishops that obeyed the Emperour in communicating. The Schism between Laurentius and Symmachus, came to blood-shed, when five or six Councils laboured to heal it. Symmachus excommunicateth the Emperour and Bishop of C. P. as communicating with Hereticks; but not an Arian King then at Rome.
LXVII. A Council of 80 Bishops at Sidon anathematize the Council of Calcedon.
The striving Parties keep up still in great Bodies, and the Melchites (as they call those that obeyed Kings and the Council) have one Patriarch at Damascus, the Eutychian Jacobites one at Mesopotamia, the Maronites one at M. Libanus, all called Patriarchs of Antioch, (and the Romans make a fourth of the same ⟨p. 32⟩title) and the Nestorians have their Patriarch at Muzal.