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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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§ 4. The ancient Godly Bishops are they who for the most ⟨p. 53⟩part have been freest in reprehending the vices of the rest; especially Greg. Nazianzen, and Chrysostom, and many ancient godly Presbyters have been as free, as Gildas, Isidore Pelusiota, Salvian, Sulp. Severus, Bernard.
§ 4. The antient Godly Bishops are they who for the most ⟨p. 53⟩part have been freest in reprehending the vices of the rest; especially Greg. Nazianzen, and Chrysostom, and many antient godly Presbyters have been as free, as Gildas, Isidore Pelusiota, Salvian, Sulp. Severus, Bernard.
§ 5. And if I have wronged the Bishops or Popes in this Abridgement, their own Historians, yea their chief flatterers have wronged them. One Pope angered Platina by imprisoning him: Yet if he be partial, it is for the Clergy, and not against them. But who will believe that Binnius, Baronius, Crab, Genebrard, Bellarmine, Petavius, and such others have spoken too hardly of them. There is no one man that I took so much from as Binnius: And what should move him to name so many of the miscarriages of the Councils, but the necessity of reciting the Acts of the Councils historically as he found them?
§ 5. And if I have wronged the Bishops or Popes in this Abridgment, their own Historians, yea their chief flatterers have wronged them. One Pope angered Platina by imprisoning him: Yet if he be partial, it is for the Clergy, and not against them. But who will believe that Binnius, Baronius, Crab, Genebrard, Bellarmine, Petavius, and such others have spoken too hardly of them. There is no one man that I took so much from as Binnius: And what should move him to name so many of the miscarriages of the Councils, but the necessity of reciting the Acts of the Councils historically as he found them?