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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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Answ. 1. Whether this Fundamental Accusation be true or false, let the Reader who loveth Truth see 1. In the very first Chapt. from § 41. to the end. 2. Through all the Book where I oft praise good Bishops, good Councils, and good Canons, and good Books and Deeds. 3. In the two last Chapters of the Book, written purposely to hinder an ill use of the Bishops faults.
Answ. 1. Whether this Fundamental Accusation be true or false, let the Reader who loveth Truth see 1. In the very first Chapt. from § 41. to the end. 2. Through all the Book where I oft praise good Bishops, good Councels, and good Canons, and good Books and Deeds. 3. In the two last Chapters of the Book, written purposely to hinder an ill use of the Bishops faults.
In the first Chapter [Very many of the Bishops themselves were humble, hol•, faithful men, that grieved for the miscarriages of the rest: Though such excellent persons as Gregory of Neocaesarea, Greg. Nazianz. Greg. Nyssen, Basil, Chrysostom, Augustine, Hillary, Prosper, Fulgentius, &c. were not very common, no doubt but there were many that wrote not Books, nor came so much into the notice of the World, but avoided contentions and factious stirs, that quietly and honestly conducted the Flocks in the ways of Piety, Love, and Justice. And some of them (as St. Martin) separated from the Councils and Communion of the prevailing turbulent sort of the Prelates; to signify the disowning of their sins.]
In the first Chapter [Very many of the Bishops themselves were humble, hol•, faithful men, that grieved for the miscarriages of the rest: Though such excellent persons as Gregory of Neocaesarea, Greg. Nazianz. Greg. Nyssen, Basil, Chrysostom, Augustine, Hillary, Prosper, Fulgentius, &c. were not very common, no doubt but there were many that wrote not Books, nor came so much into the notice of the World, but avoided contentions and factious stirs, that quietly and honestly conducted the Flocks in the waies of Piety, Love, and Justice. And some of them (as St. Martin) separated from the Councils and Communion of the prevailing turbulent sort of the Prelates; to signifie the disowning of their sins.]