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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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V. The Subjecting and debasing of all Christian Princes, making them but as the Body, and the Moon, and the Bishops, to be as the soul and the sun. Especially the General Lateran Council which decreed Transubstantiation, and all to be Heretics that denied it; And oblige all temporal Lords to exterminate all such Heretics on pain of Excommunication, deposition & damnation.
V. The Subjecting and debasing of all Christian Princes, making them but as the Body, and the Moon, and the Bishops, to be as the soul and the sun. Especially the General Lateran Council which decreed Transubstantiation, and all to be Hereticks that denied it; And oblige all temporal Lords to exterminate all such Hereticks on pain of Excommunication, deposition & damnation.
VI. The Councils of Constance and Basils that were for Reformation how falsely and cruelly they dealt with Hus and Jerome and rejected the four great requests of the Bohemians, and fixed their pollutions.
VI. The Councils of Constance and Basils that were for Reformation how falsly and cruelly they dealt with Hus and Jerome and rejected the four great requests of the Bohemians, and fixed their pollutions.
VII. The Councils of Florence, and that of Trent, which had more Learned men, who yet more obstinately managed the Enmity to Reformation.