A27058:367
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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I after tell you where Chrysostom even in his time numbers the Christians in that great Imperial City to be an hundred thousand, that is as many as in Martins and Stepney Parishes, and perhaps in Giles Cripplegate too.
§ 25. To conclude, whereas Mr. M. in general chargeth me as falsifying History, I still call my self a HATER of FALSE HISTORY, and loath Mr. Morris's History, because it is false: But if he will instead of falsifying and trifling, show me any false History that I have owned, I will thank him unfeignedly, and retract it. But factious reproaching of good men, and painting the deformed face of Vice, go not with me for convincing proof. If I am not near of kin to Erasmus, I am a stranger to my self, even as Merula, and M. Adamus describe him, [Ingenio erat simplex; adeo abhorrens a mendacio, ut puellus etiam odisset pueros mentientes; & senex ad illorum adspectum etiam corpore commoveretur. Dignitatum & magnarum divitiarum contumax contemptor; neque quicquam prius otio habuit ac libertate.] And I think, as it is said of Cuspinian; [Ratus see satisfacturum ingenuo Lectori, siquae verissima esse comperisset simplicissima oratione mandaret posteritati: satis enim est historico (ut praeclare dixit apud Ciceronem Catullus) non esse Mendacem.]
§ 25. To conclude, whereas Mr. M. in general chargeth me as falsifying History, I still call my self a HATER of FALSE HISTORY, and loath Mr. Morrice's History, because it is false: But if he will instead of falsifying and trifling, shew me any false History that I have owned, I will thank him unfeignedly, and retract it. But factious reproaching of good men, and painting the deformed face of Vice, go not with me for convincing proof. If I am not near of kin to Erasmus, I am a stranger to my self, even as Merula, and M. Adamus describe him, [Ingenio erat simplex; adeo abhorrens a mendacio, ut puellus etiam odisset pueros mentientes; & senex ad illorum adspectum etiam corpore commoveretur. Dignitatum & magnarum divitiarum contumax contemptor; neque quicquam prius otio habuit ac libertate.] And I think, as it is said of Cuspinian; [Ratus se satisfacturum ingenuo Lectori, siquae verissima esse comperisset simplicissima oratione mandaret posteritati: satis enim est historico (ut praeclare dixit apud Ciceronem Catullus) non esse Mendacem.]