A27058:447
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What abundance of faults would Causabon have found in Baronius, if he had lived to go through him as he began? And I profess my self much more ignorant in History than Baronius.
It would be tedious to number all the gross Errors that Vossius citeth de scriptor. Graecis & Latinis; e. g. in the Later. p. 230. Hos duos confudit Trithemius—vid. quae habet de Fla•. Alcuino, p. 290, 291, 292. De Usuardo, p. 295. cont. Gualterium & Baronium, Wicelium, p. 296. & cap. 32. de Turpino contra Trithemium & alios. Et cap. 33. de Walafr. Strab. Tritthenius vehementer errat—Et Laur. Surium Bellarmin. in Catal. & alios nonnullos in errorem induxit.
It would be tedious to number all the gross Errours that Vossius citeth de scriptor. Graecis & Latinis; e. g. in the Later. p. 230. Hos duos confudit Trithemius—vid. quae habet de Fla•. Alcuino, p. 290, 291, 292. De Usuardo, p. 295. cont. Gualterium & Baronium, Wicelium, p. 296. & cap. 32. de Turpino contra Trithemium & alios. Et cap. 33. de Walafr. Strab. Tritthenius vehementer errat—Et Laur. Surium Bellarmin. in Catal. & alios nonnullos in errorem induxit.
Vid. & quae de Aimoino, p. 308, 309. habet, & contra Possevinum, p. 310. & contra alios, 311. Et contra Baronium, Breulium, &c. 312. Et de Haimone cap. 35. contra Tritthenium, & de Rabano Mauro, p. 315. Et de Landulph. Sagace contra Caes. Orlandium. De Anastas. c. 35. p. 319. De Hin•maro contra Tritthenium, c. 36. p. 320. But I must not tire the Reader: Multitudes of such Instances this one Author gives us: And how few Historians charge not others with Errors so much greater, and more than Mr. M. with any Truth accuseth me of.