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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.
2. And since a Diocese of many hundred or score Parishes hath had but one Bishop for Discipline, the work is become impossible to the best. But when a few Bad men will mercenarily undertake Impossibilities, and so Badness and Impossibility go together, alas, what hope, but of a better world above?
2. And since a Diocess of many hundred or score Parishes hath had but one Bishop for Discipline, the work is become impossible to the best. But when a few Bad men will mercinarily undertake Impossibilities, and so Badness and Impossibility go together, alas, what hope, but of a better world above?
Saith Luther de Concil. & Eccles. p. 300. Sed quam sunt intenti hanc crassam & asininam •atuitatem? Unus Episcopus nonnunquam habet tres Episcopatus vel Dioceses, & tamen vocatur Unius Uxoris maritus, & cum habet tantum unum Episcopatum, tamen interdum habet centum, ducentas, quingentas Parochias, aut etiam plures, & vocatur tamen Sponsus unius Ecclesiae—Hi non sunt digami—Tam insulsas & ineptissimas naenias recipit mens humana; it a permittente Deo cum a verbo discedimus, & omnia limatius & subtilius scrutamur quam ipse vult nos scrutari.] Whether you reverence Luther any more than Calvin I know not.
11. To conclude this matter, two things I desire you, or at least the Reader to consider,