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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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LXXXV. Faith and Salvation now depended so much on Arithmetic, that the Bishops of Spain raised another Arithmetical Controversy, asserting Three Substances in Christ, his Divinity, his Soul, and his Body, and say, [A Will begat a Will, that is, the Divine, the Humane.] These things are true. But the wise Pope was so affrighted with Arithmetical Controversies by experience of the mischievous Effects, that he cautioned them much about it, and for that some judged him erroneous.
LXXXV. Faith and Salvation now depended so much on Arithmetick, that the Bishops of Spain raised another Arithmetical Controversie, asserting Three Substances in Christ, his Divinity, his Soul, and his Body, and say, [A Will begat a Will, that is, the Divine, the Humane.] These things are true. But the wise Pope was so affrighted with Arithmetical Controversies by experience of the mischievous Effects, that he cautioned them much about it, and for that some judged him erroneous.
LXXXVI. The Council at Trull was one of the best that ever they had, yet showed the Core of the Churches Plague, by decreeing, That whatever alteration the Imperial Power maketh on any City, the Ecclesiastical Order shall follow it. This Clergy ambition nursed up Anti-Christ.
LXXXVI. The Council at Trull was one of the best that ever they had, yet shewed the Core of the Churches Plague, by decreeing, That whatever alteration the Imperial Power maketh on any City, the Ecclesiastical Order shall follow it. This Clergy ambition nurst up Anti-Christ.
LXXXVII. A Council at Aquileia condemned the 5th General Council for condemning the Tria capitula.