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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.
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.
III. The dismal wars with many Emperors, and the Bishops and Councils half on one side and half on the other.
III. The dismal wars with many Emperours, and the Bishops and Councils half on one side and half on the other.
IV. The Council that called the Emperors and others Princes power of investing Bishops, the Henrician Heresy, and judged the Bishops that had been for it to be digged out of their graves and burnt.
IV. The Council that called the Emperours and others Princes power of investing Bishops, the Henrician Heresie, and judg'd the Bishops that had been for it to be dig'd out of their graves and burnt.