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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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VIII. The present State of the Universal Church throughout the World as it is divided into Papists, Protestants, Greeks, Muscovites, ⟨p. 40⟩Georgians, with the Circassians and Mengrelians, Armenians, Nestorians, Jacobites, Cophtis, Abasines, Maronites, Melchites: And what thoughts these have of one another.
VIII. The present State of the Universal Church throughout the World as it is divided into Papists, Protestants, Greeks, Moscovites, ⟨p. 40⟩Georgians, with the Circassians and Mengrelians, Armenians, Nestorians, Jacobites, Cophtis, Abasines, Maronites, Melchites: And what thoughts these have of one another.
And I would desire Mr. Morris to tell us,
And I would desire Mr. Morrice to tell us,
1. Whether he believes not verily that all these Instances prove that the Bishops have been the chief cause, and that by Ambition, Pride and Worldliness?