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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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§ 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.
§ 8. They that write the History of mens Lives, do use to record their Parentage, Birth and Education: And so must he that will truly write the History of Church-Tyranny, Persecution and Schism. The end is not well understood without the beginning. Who is it that heareth how many Ages the Christian world hath been divided into Papists, Greeks, Jacobites, Nestorians, Melchites, &c. and that seeth what work the Papacy hath made, but will ask how all this came to pass? Did the man that died of Gluttony, swallow all at one morsel? or rather one bit after another? And when the Clergy have ventured on one merry Cup, or one pleasant morsel in excess, it's ⟨p. 54⟩easy to make them believe that one, and one, and one Cup more; one, and one, and one bit more, is no more unlawful than the first. Princip•is obsta, is the Rule of Safety.