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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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Of the many Heresies or Sects that rose up from the intemperate opposition to Nestorius, and the woeful ruins they made in the East after the Calcedon Councils, and all caused by Pride and Prosperity, and wantonness of Wit, and stopped only by the Conquest of the Saracens and Arabians, and how orthodox now in their Captivity and Poverty they all are, even the Jacobites, the Nestorians, the Armenians, the Cophti, the Abassines, the Indians, and the Maronites, see the notable words of Brierwood Enquir. p. 180, 181, 182, 183. As also how the Persian King was a great cause of the spreading of the Nestorians through his Dominions.
Of the many Heresies or Sects that rose up from the intemperate opposition to Nestorius, and the woful ruines they made in the East after the Calcedon Councils, and all caused by Pride and Prosperity, and wantonness of Wit, and stopt only by the Conquest of the Sarazens and Arabians, and how orthodox now in their Captivity and Poverty they all are, even the Jacobites, the Nestorians, the Armenians, the Cophti, the Abassines, the Indians, and the Maronites, see the notable words of Brierwrod Enquir. p. 180, 181, 182, 183. As also how the Persian King was a great cause of the spreading of the Nestorians through his Dominions.
LXVIII. The East and West were divided in Justin's Reign, on the Question, whether the names of two Orthodox dead Bishops should be restored into the Diptychs, even Euphemius and Macedonius, whom the Pope had damned as communicating with Heretics; the Bishops of the East being for it, and the West against it.
LXVIII. The East and West were divided in Justin's Reign, on the Question, whether the names of two Orthodox dead Bishops should be restored into the Dypticks, even Euphemius and Macedonius, whom the Pope had damned as communicating with Hereticks; the Bishops of the East being for it, and the West against it.