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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
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.
Yea of the good that was done by the very worldly sort p. 18, 19, 20. Yea of the Papists Bishops that were pious p. 20. § 46.
And § 47. I vindicate the excellency of the Sacred Office. And § 53, 58, 59, 60. I plead for Episcopacy it self in the justifiable species of it.
§ 2. But perhaps he will say, that at least I say more of their faults than their […]: I answer, of such good Bishops as Cyprian, Basil, Greg. Nazianzen, Chrysostom, Augustin, Hillary, Martin, &c. I speak of their virtues and nothing at all (that I remember) of their faults. Of such as Theophilus, and Cyril Alexandri. and Epiphanius, &c. I speak of their virtues and some of their faults (as the scripture doth of many good mens.) Of the more ambitious, turbulent sort, I speak only or mostly of their faults: For I profess not to write a History of their lives, but to inform the ignorant what Spirit it is that brought in Church tyranny and divisions. I denied none of their virtues, though it was not my work to record them.
§ 2. But perhaps he will say, that at least I say more of their faults than their 〈…〉: I answer, of such good Bishops as Cyprian, Basil, Greg. Nazianzen, Chrysostom, Augustin, Hillary, Martin, &c. I speak of their virtues and nothing at all (that I remember) of their faults. Of such as Theophilus, and Cyril Alexandri. and Epiphanius, &c. I speak of their virtues and some of their faults (as the scripture doth of many good mens.) Of the more ambitious, turbulent sort, I speak only or mostly of their faults: For I profess not to write a History of their lives, but to inform the ignorant what Spirit it is that brought in Church tyranny and divisions. I denyed none of their virtues, though it was not my work to record them.