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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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§ 6. The Sacred Scriptures record the Crimes of the best men in all the Ages of which they write, even Adams, Noes, Lots, Aaron's, Davids, Solomons, Hezekiahs, Josiahs, Peters, all the Apostles, &c. And it was not done out of spite or malice; but as a necessary warning to us all.
§ 6. The Sacred Scriptures record the Crimes of the best men in all the Ages of which they write, even Adams, Noes, Lots, Aarons, Davids, Solomons, Hezekiahs, Josiahs, Peters, all the Apostles, &c. And it was not done out of spite or malice; but as a necessary warning to us all.
§ 7. The falsehood of History is an intolerable abuse of mankind: To know nothing done before our times, is to shut up mankind in a dungeon; and false History is worse than none. And it may be false and deceitful in defect as well as excess. He that should record all that was good in the Popes, and omit all the rest, would be a dangerous deceiver of the world, and do more than hath been done to make all Christians Papists. You tell us your selves, that he that should write the History of Cromwell, c. g. or of any Sect that you are against, and should leave out all their faults, would be taken for a false Historian.
§ 7. The falshood of History is an intollerable abuse of mankind: To know nothing done before our times, is to shut up mankind in a dungeon; and false History is worse than none. And it may be false and deceitful in defect as well as excess. He that should record all that was good in the Popes, and omit all the rest, would be a dangerous deceiver of the world, and do more than hath been done to make all Christians Papists. You tell us your selves, that he that should write the History of Cromwell, c. g. or of any Sect that you are against, and should leave out all their faults, would be taken for a false Historian.