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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.
LXXVIII. A Council of Jerusalem save one Bishop, presently received this Decree.
LXXIX. A Western Council at Aquileia condemn this 5th General Council at C. P. and (saith Binius) separated from the whole Catholic Church (even from Rome) for an hundred years till Sergius reconciled them. Q. Were the Western Bishops or the Pope then the Western Church? So many separated, that Vigilius being dead, there could but two Bishops (and a Presbyter) be got to ordain Pelagius his Successor. But the Emperor and his Pope persecute the Bishops, and the Schism seemed desperate.
LXXIX. A Western Council at Aquileia condemn this 5th General Council at C. P. and (saith Binius) separated from the whole Catholick Church (even from Rome) for an hundred years till Sergius reconciled them. Q. Were the Western Bishops or the Pope then the Western Church? So many separated, that Vigilius being dead, there could but two Bishops (and a Presbyter) be got to ordain Pelagius his Successor. But the Emperour and his Pope persecute the Bishops, and the Schism seemed desperate.
LXXX. Another Council at C. P. An. 587. decree that John Bishop of C. P. be called The Universal Bishop; which greatly increased the Churches divisions.