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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.
1. Whether it be not a dreadful thing for a man to make the Church corrupting, dividing and confounding sin•, to be all his own by defending or excusing them, on a false pretence of Vindicating the Primitive Church Government, which was contrary to them?
2. Whether you trust to Truth and Evidence, or to Interest and depraved Judgments, if you think men shall believe that you have confuted all this undoubted History, and the present experience of all the woeful Christian World, by a general Cry that I write falsely and maliciously, or by saying that I am unlearned, or that I trusted to a Translation, or Binnius, or that Binnius mistook the year, (things that I will not turn over my ⟨p. 43⟩Books to try,) or that I misplaced or misunderstood a word of Theodorite, or mistranslated Calami, or such like. Such Believers of you are guilty of their own deceit.
2. Whether you trust to Truth and Evidence, or to Interest and depraved Judgments, if you think men shall believe that you have confuted all this undoubted History, and the present experience of all the woful Christian World, by a general Cry that I write falsly and maliciously, or by saying that I am unlearned, or that I trusted to a Translation, or Binnius, or that Binnius mistook the year, (things that I will not turn over my ⟨p. 43⟩Books to try,) or that I misplaced or misunderstood a word of Theodorite, or mistranslated Calami, or such like. Such Believers of you are guilty of their own deceit.
§ 22. There is lately published by a nameless Prelatist, to show the World what Spirit he is of, a Book pretending by the description of my Life from 1640. till 1681. to prove me one of the worst men alive. To that I will now say but these few words.