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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. VI. Of his Accusations of my own Mistranslations and Mistakes.
§ 1. OF these are two real Oversights which he nameth, committed by too much hast and heedlessness: The one is, that I misplaced [Vere] in the Translation of a Speech of Theodorets; a gross oversight I confess: The other, that I put [Episcopi] as if it had been the […]tive case, when it was the Nominative plural; which also was a heedless oversight. And about the death of Stephanus, he noteth my mistranslating Calami; and I imagine yet he is scarce certain what it signified himself. As for his note of my use of [Scripture] about the Ephesine Council, I purposely kept to the literal Translation, that none might say I did mistranslate it; but I never said that by the Scriptures was meant the Bible.
§ 1. OF these are two real Oversights which he nameth, committed by too much hast and heedlesness: The one is, that I misplaced [Vere] in the Translation of a Speech of Theodorets; a gross oversight I confess: The other, that I put [Episcopi] as if it had been the 〈…〉tive case, when it was the Nominative plural; which also was a heedless oversight. And about the death of Stephanus, he noteth my mistranslating Calami; and I imagine yet he is scarce certain what it signified himself. As for his note of my use of [Scripture] about the Ephesine Council, I purposely kept to the literal Translation, that none might say I did mistranslate it; but I never said that by the Scriptures was meant the Bible.
§ 2. This Accuser puts too great an honour on such a History as mine, which goeth through so many Ages and Acts, in noting so few, and such little things. I never pretended to be as good an Historian as he is; yet I do not think that it was any thing but a slip of memory that made him put Eustathius instead of Flavian, as kicked to death at Ephesus. And me thinks he that thus begins his Errata of his own Book [The faults that have escaped are almost infinite:] should not for one false Comma of the Printers, have passed the foresaid censure of me.