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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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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. 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. 4. Is it from Spite and Malice that your Party have written what they have done of the great faultiness of the Nonconformists, both former and latter; and that Calvinists are so odiously represented, that the Reformation by them is described by Heylin and others as Rebellious? That such books are written as Heylins Aerius Redivivus, H. Fowlis, the Evangel. Armatum, The Eccles. Polit. the Friendly Debate, the Counterminer, the Vindica•. of Dr. Stillingfleet, the pretended second part, (which is a continued Calumny against my self, so full of particular falsehoods as are not to be without a tedious Volume answered: And a multitude such written to render the Nonconformists odious and unsufferable. If all these be not written in Malice, how know you that mine were?
Ans. 4. Is it from Spight and Malice that your Party have written what they have done of the great faultiness of the Nonconformists, both former and latter; and that Calvinists are so odiously represented, that the Reformation by them is described by Heylin and others as Rebellious? That such books are written as Heylins Aerius Redivivus, H. Fowlis, the Evangel. Armatum, The Eccles. Polit. the Friendly Debate, the Counterminer, the Vindica. of Dr. Stillingfleet, the pretended second part, (which is a continued Calumny against my self, so full of particular falshoods as are not to be without a tedious Volume answered: And a multitude such written to render the Nonconformists odious and unsufferable. If all these be not written in Malice, how know you that mine were?