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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. VIII. Of his false supposition that I am against Diocesan Bishops, because I am against that species of them which puts down all the Bishops of single Churches, and those Churches themselves.
§ 1. This supposition goeth through almost all the book: In his preface he saith [The superiority of Bishops over Presbyters is acknowledged by Catholics, and Schismatics & Heretics, &c. and yet this Church history would have us believe the Contrary.] And so throughout.
§ 1. THis supposition goeth through almost all the book: In his preface he saith [The superiority of Bishops over Presbyters is acknowledged by Catholicks, and Schismaticks & Hereticks, &c. and yet this Church history would have us believe the Contrary.] And so throughout.
§ 2. And yet to show that he knew the Contrary in one place he confesseth it, and described part of my judgment, and saith that none will be of my mind in it, but it is singular to my self: Yea I had in my Disput. of Church Government, which he taketh on him in part to answer, and in my Treat. of Episcopacy which he also pretends to answer in part, told them of more sorts of Bishops than one that I oppose not, no not A. Bishops themselves: And one of them hereupon notes it as if I differed but about the name, submitting to Diocesans so they may but be called A. Bishops. To whom▪ I answered that A. Bishops have Bishops under them, so that though I over and over even to tediousness tell them it is the deposing of all the first or lowest Species of Bishops and Churches, and Consequently all Possibility of true Discipline that I oppose, and submit to any that oversee many such Churches without destroying them and their privileges instituted by Christ] I speak ill in vain to them: These true Historians face down the world that I write whole books to the clean contrary.