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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.
§ 1. Answ. 1. Spite and Malice are heart sins: If the same effect may come from other Causes, how know you that these are the Cause?
§ 1. ANsw. 1. Spite and Malice are heart sins: If the same effect may come from other Causes, how know you that these are the Cause?
Ans. 2. Is it from Spite and Malice that Protestants commonly describe the vices of the Popes, such as Greg. 7. Sergius, Alexandr. 3. Boniface 8. Joh. 12. and 13. & 22, & 23. & Eugen. 4. &c. And also that they so hardly speak of the Jesuits, Yea and Papists commonly? Sure it may come from some other cause.
Ans. 2. Is it from Spight and Malice that Protestants commonly describe the vices of the Popes, such as Greg. 7. Sergius, Alexandr. 3. Boniface 8. Joh. 12. and 13. & 22, & 23. & Eugen. 4. &c. And also that they so hardly speak of the Jesuites, Yea and Papists commonly? Sure it may come from some other cause.
Ans. 3. Is it from Spite and Malice that you recite the tumults of the German Anabaptists, the faults of those at Munster, the Errors of David George, the many Enthusiastic Sects described by Beckman Exercit. (of whom many as Thaulerus, Kempis, Behmen had much very commendable; and Grotius praised Job. Ar•dt.) Is it from Malice that the Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Anabaptists, &c. are usually by your party described by their faults, without any mention of their goodness?
Ans. 3. Is it from Spight and Malice that you recite the tumults of the German Anabaptists, the faults of those at Munster, the Errours of David George, the many Enthusiastick Sects described by Beckman Exercit. (of whom many as Thaulerus, Kempis, Behmen had much very commendable; and Grotius praised Job. Ardt.) Is it from Malice that the Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Anabaptists, &c. are usually by your party described by their faults, without any mention of their goodness?