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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.
XCII. The Greek Bishops condemn the Roman Bishops for adding [Filioque ] to the Creed, and so another occasion of Schism is raised.
XCIII. The Schisms in Italy and Rome itself now grew so great and the Effects in Blood and Confusions so dismal, that I must not number them one by one.
XCIV. Constantine and Leo Isaur. Emperors, being dead, a Woman Irene, and her Infant Son are for Images, and call a General Council for them at Nice, where Tharasius Bishop of C. P. got the Bishops to carry it for Images and Relics, and the Chief Bishops that had condemned them before, now cried peccavimus, and condemned those that were against adoration of Images, &c. If Mr. Morris call me an Enemy to Repentance for reciting this, I cannot help it.
XCIV. Constantine and Leo Isaur. Emperours, being dead, a Woman Irene, and her Infant Son are for Images, and call a General Council for them at Nice, where Tharasius Bishop of C. P. got the Bishops to carry it for Images and Reliques, and the Chief Bishops that had condemned them before, now cryed peccavimus, and condemned those that were against adoration of Images, &c. If Mr. Morrice call me an Enemy to Repentance for reciting this, I cannot help it.