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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
Preface: To the Pious and Peaceable Protestant-Conforming Ministers, who are against our Subject…
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Lib. 3. c. 8. In order to declare the Religion of the Abyssinians he first declareth the Success of the Council of Calcedon, thus,—[Damnatus Dioscorus Patriarcha Alexandrinus tanquam Eutychis Defensor & Haeresiarcha, verberibus quoque mulctatus & in exilium ejectus fuit, alio Patriarcha Catholico in locum ejus suffecto— ⟨image 6⟩Atrox exinde in Ecclesia Alexandrina Schisma, caede & sanguine continuatum, in causa fuit, ut non solum multo maxima pars Ecclesiae Alexand. à reliqua Ecclesia Catholica avelleretur, sed & Aegyptus ipsa, attritis incolarum viribus, in Saracenorum potestatem veniret; qui discordiâ Christianorum, utrosque oppresserunt; ut exiguum, proh dolour! vestigium Christianae Religionis nunc in Aegypto supersit. Haec atque alia talia Scriptores nostri.
Lib. 3. c. 8. In order to declare the Religion of the Habassines he first declareth the Success of the Council of Calcedon, thus,—[Damnatus Dioscorus Patriarcha Alexandrinus tanquam Eutychis Defensor & Haeresiarcha, verberibus quoque mulctatus & in exilium ejectus fuit, alio Patriarcha Catholico in locum ejus suffecto— ⟨image 6⟩Atrox exinde in Ecclesia Alexandrina Schisma, caede & sanguine continuatum, in causa fuit, ut non solum multo maxima pars Ecclesiae Alexand. à reliqua Ecclesia Catholica avelleretur, sed & Aegyptus ipsa, attritis incolarum viribus, in Saracenorum potestatem veniret; qui discordiâ Christianorum, utrosque oppresserunt; ut exiguum, proh dolor! vestigium Christianae Religionis nunc in Aegypto supersit. Haec atque alia talia Scriptores nostri.
And the loss of Egypt and the South, so strengthened the Enemies of Christianity, that this breach let in Destruction to the whole Christian Empire: But the loss of the whole Empire and Introduction of Mohammedanism, in the Eyes of our fiery Canoneers, is no dishonour to these Councils: It is but saying, It was all long of Dioscorus, and the Heretics: And were not these Heretics also Prelates and Prelatical?