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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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Honest Thuanus is amiable and honourable for Speaking well of all that deserved it, without partiality: But Gerb. Vossius is put to defend his Father-in-law Junius against his unjust censure. Indeed Junius was a man of Eminent peaceableness and moderation, (I would Arminius and he had been the utmost prosecutors of that Controversy, notwithstanding Dr. Twisses undervaluing his skill in School Divinity) And few men were more unlike Thuanus his ill Character than Junius: But Dr Manton hath told me that he hath been fully informed that it was not Junius that Thuanus meant but another that dyed that year (which Junius did not) and that by some ill chance a wrong name was put in Contrary to Thuanus intent.
Honest Thuanus is amiable and honourable for Speaking well of all that deserved it, without partiality: But Gerb. Vossius is put to defend his Father-in-law Junius against his unjust censure. Indeed Junius was a man of Eminent peaceableness and moderation, (I would Arminius and he had been the utmost prosecutors of that Controversie, notwithstanding Dr. Twisses undervaluing his skill in School Divinity) And few men were more unlike Thuanus his ill Character than Junius: But Dr Manton hath told me that he hath been fully informed that it was not Junius that Thuanus meant but another that dyed that year (which Junius did not) and that by some ill chance a wrong name was put in Contrary to Thuanus intent.
§ 2. Dr. Burnet is a man whom I much value and honour, and pleadeth much for peace and moderation, and therefore much the more amiable to me: I thank him for his reproof of me to my face; but because he goeth on to vend it as just behind my back, where I cannot answer him, I must do it here. He saith that [I began and that with unchristian, provoking language against the Conformists in my first Plea for peace, which caused all the succeeding heats.]
Ans. 1. I have to him and oft in print appealed to humanity and common sense whether one that was seventeen years silent, & communicated in the Parish Churches, and under scorns, and ejection, imprisonment & mulcts did peaceably continue Communion with them without reply or self defence, and never wrote against them, till they had long called out to him to give them an account of the reasons of his Nonconformity, and then durst not provoke them by a dispute, but barely named the matters which we judge unlawful, professing not to be the Accuser of Conformists, but only to answer the Call of Parliament-men, Bishops, and others that urged us, and threatened us if we would not tell them what we stuck at; and made this the Justification of their prosecution of many hundred men: I say, whether such a