A27058:369
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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And as to my ends and expectations, I am not so vain as to write with any great hope of persuading many, if any who are possest of large Diocese, Wealth and Power, to forsake them, much less to cure the common Thirst that corrupted Nature is possest with, and to be the means of a Public Reformation: If I may satisfy my Conscience, and save some from being deceived by false History about the Causes of the Ancient Schisms, it's all that I can hope for: Had I lived in Alb. Crantzius days, I might perhaps have said as he of Luther [Frater, Frater, abi in cellam tuam, & dic Miserere mei Deus:] Et de Canonicis [Greek or Hebrew] dictis, Nunquam posse eos reduci ad meliorem srugem ⟨p. 46⟩nisi prius a viris doctis expugnata arce (i. e. Papatu.)
And as to my ends and expectations, I am not so vain as to write with any great hope of persuading many, if any who are possest of large Diocess, Wealth and Power, to forsake them, much less to cure the common Thirst that corrupted Nature is possest with, and to be the means of a Publick Reformation: If I may satisfie my Conscience, and save some from being deceived by false History about the Causes of the Antient Schisms, it's all that I can hope for: Had I lived in Alb. Crantzius daies, I might perhaps have said as he of Luther [Frater, Frater, abi in cellam tuam, & dic Miserere mei Deus:] Et de Canonicis 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 dictis, Nunquam posse eos reduci ad meliorem srugem ⟨p. 46⟩nisi prius a viris doctis expugnata arce (i. e. Papatu.)
And for my self, none of the Interested mens reproaches are unexpected to me: Anger will speak. I know what the Papists say of the Reformers, and all the Protestants: And yet I expect that all at last will turn to the disgrace of falsehood, by putting men to search Church-History for the Truth.
And for my self, none of the Interested mens reproaches are unexpected to me: Anger will speak. I know what the Papists say of the Reformers, and all the Protestants: And yet I expect that all at last will turn to the disgrace of falshood, by putting men to search Church-History for the Truth.