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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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But doth not this Learned Historian know, how ordinarily the greatest of them do charge one another with manifold Errors, and of far greater moment than these forementioned. How few Historians do not this? Yea what bitter censures doth he pass himself on no lower Historians than Socrates and Sozomen? It would be tedious to give you the Instances that every such Book affordeth. I see he valueth Lab the Jesuit. How oft doth he accuse Historians of Error, Ignorance, Malice, &c. e. g. de Anastasio Biblioth. so eminent a Writer of the Popes Lives, yet [Errat Vossius & siqui alii cum Anastasio Presbytero, &c.] And ⟨p. 61⟩even of that famous History of the Popes, [Onuphria• Panuinius, Gerb. Vossius, & plerique alii […] consent esse ab Anastasio scriptam, Nicolai 1. Papae Vitam, & a Gulielm• S. R. E. Bibliothecario additas fuisse Hair. 2. & Steph. 6. P. Vitas: Verum Cardinalis Baronius iis refragatur eidemque auctori omnes illas ascribit; sunt quoque qui a Damaso Papa, &c.] Here the greatest Historians differ about one of the most noted Histories.
But doth not this Learned Historian know, how ordinarily the greatest of them do charge one another with manifold Errours, and of far greater moment than these forementioned. How few Historians do not this? Yea what bitter censures doth he pass himself on no lower Historians than Socrates and Sozomen? It would be tedious to give you the Instances that every such Book affordeth. I see he valueth Labbe the Jesuite. How oft doth he accuse Historians of Errour, Ignorance, Malice, &c. e. g. de Anastasio Biblioth. so eminent a Writer of the Popes Lives, yet [Errat Vossius & siqui alii cum Anastasio Presbytero, &c.] And ⟨p. 61⟩even of that famous History of the Popes, [Onuphria• Panuinius, Gerb. Vossius, & plerique alii 〈…〉 consent esse ab Anastasio scriptam, Nicolai 1. Papae Vitam, & a Gulielm• S. R. E. Bibliothecario additas fuisse Ha•r. 2. & Steph. 6. P. Vitas: Verum Cardinalis Baronius iis refragatur eidemque auctori omnes illas ascribit; sunt quoque qui a Damaso Papa, &c.] Here the greatest Historians differ about one of the most noted Histories.