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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. 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?
Ans. 5. And whereas some pretending moderation accuse me of too bad provoking language, 1. Is there any Comparison between the language of any of these books, or yours and Dr. ⟨p. 72⟩Sherlock's and mine? Read but Learned Godly moderate Bishop Downam his Defence of his Visit. sermon, his frequent charges [of shameless, impudent Lying, and much more] against a Nonconformist that gave him no such language. Read but the ordinary Writings of such as Bishop Bancroft, Dr. Sutcliff, and most others against the Old Nonconformists; and of the Lutherans against the Calvinists, even men that I am persuaded meant honestly, but by Faction were exasperated, as Hunnius, Brentius, Morlinus, Mrbackius, Snepfius, Wigandus, Heshusius, Andreas, Senecerus, Heerbrand, Calovis, and many such. Read but our Grammarians, such as you may find in the many Volumes of the Collections of Janus Gruters, even those of Cranmer, and Phil. Paraeus, and others against himself; where Fools, Knaves, Liars, Sots, and worse, make up much of the style.