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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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2. Dr. James hath long ago warned all Scholars to make much of Crab and other old ones, (and the Fathers as Printed at Basil by Erasmus, Amerbachius, &c.) and not to trust much to new Editions, as coming through untrusty hands.
3. Is Valesius a man of so much credit with you? Do you believe what he saith of Grotius as being in judgment for the Papal Church, and only in prudence delaying his visible Communion with them, that he might draw in many with him? (Vales. in Orat. de Petavio:) If he lye in this, and the success of Petavius on Grotius, why should he be more trusted than others? If not, I need not tell you what to think of those Bishops and Drs. who profess to be of the same mind and Church as Grotius; nor again to tell you who they be.
4. My design led me not to make use of Critics, but only to tell the world, what the Papists themselves confess, such as I have throughout cited.
4. My design led me not to make use of Criticks, but only to tell the world, what the Papists themselves confess, such as I have throughout cited.