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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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CHAP. IV. Of his Accusation, that I vainly name Historians which I never saw or read.
§ 1. I Must profess that it never was my purpose to tell the world how many Historians I have read; nor to abridge all that I have read: And those that I have most read I have there made no mention of, as not being for my intended end: And multitudes that stood by me, I never opened to the writing of this history, my design being chiefly against the Papists and those Protestants who most esteem their writings, and had rather unite with the French Papist Church, than with us Nonconformists: Therefore when I was past the first 400 or 500 years, it was the greatest and most flattering Popish historians that I abriged, as ad hominem being likest not to be denied.
§ 1. I Must profess that it never was my purpose to tell the world how many Historians I have read; nor to abridge all that I have read: And those that I have most read I have there made no mention of, as not being for my intended end: And multitudes that stood by me, I never opened to the writing of this history, my design being chiefly against the Papists and those Protestants who most esteem their writings, and had rather unite with the French Papist Church, than with us Nonconformists: Therefore when I was past the first 400 or 500 years, it was the greatest and most flattering Popish historians that I abriged, as ad hominem being likest not to be denyed.
I told the reader that I made not use of Luther the Magdeburgenses, nor the Collections of Goldastus, Marquardus Freherus, Reuberus, Pistorius, &c.] And the Printer having put a Comma between Marquardus and Freherus, he Conjectures that I took him for two men, because I added not the Christian names of the rest: And he concludes that [whoever this mistake belongs to, it's plain that M. B. had but little acquaintance with those Collections.] For I name some of the Authors therein.