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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.
CXV. An. 1049. A Roman Council was fain to pardon Simoniacal Bishops and Priests, because the Cry was, that else none would be left to officiate.
CXVI. Being come into the Roman sink, I will pass above an hundred more of the Councils of this woeful sort of Bishops, lest Mr. Morris think that I suppose him to vindicate them, or not to abhor them. Only remembering my Reader of a few General or notable things: viz.
CXVI. Being come into the Roman sink, I will pass above an hundred more of the Councils of this woful sort of Bishops, lest Mr. Morrice think that I suppose him to vindicate them, or not to abhor them. Only remembering my Reader of a few General or notable things: viz.
I. The multitude of Schisms, and long vacancies at Rome; and the horrid incapacity of very many Popes, which prove an interrupted succession.
II. The horrid wars that long infested Italy by the Popes means.