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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.
The first is, that I use the word [untruths] against my Accusers. And 1. I think the Reader will very rarely find that word in that Book. 2. Is this so harsh as the common charge of Lying, used even by the most Learned sober Conformists? 3. I thought it had been a modest word: What shall a man say when such Volumes of Slander are published against him and others, as tends to preach all their Neighbours into hatred and persecution of them? Alas! Doth it increase our crime to say, It is untrue? How shall we then answer for our selves at any Bar? Is it tolerable voluminously to tell the World down-right falsehoods of us? and is it railing for us to say, [They are untrue?] What's this but like him that run a man through in wrath with his Sword, and indicted him for crying, oh? This is the Church Justice even of our moderate Historians.
The first is, that I use the word [untruths] against my Accusers. And 1. I think the Reader will very rarely find that word in that Book. 2. Is this so harsh as the common charge of Lying, used even by the most Learned sober Conformists? 3. I thought it had been a modest word: What shall a man say when such Volumes of Slander are published against him and others, as tends to preach all their Neighbours into hatred and persecution of them? Alas! Doth it increase our crime to say, It is untrue? How shall we then answer for our selves at any Bar? Is it tollerable voluminously to tell the World down-right falshoods of us? and is it railing for us to say, [They are untrue?] What's this but like him that run a man thorow in wrath with his Sword, and indicted him for crying, oh? This is the Church Justice even of our moderate Historians.
§ 4. But he saith, I should not call it [a falsehood, or untruth] but a mistake. Answ. This is a sharper word; for it signifieth the fault of the mistaker usually; whereas by speaking de objecto, that it is false, I leave it to others how far the reporter is to be blamed. But sure most Logical Disputations are Railings, if the words [ •alsum] and [fallacia] be such.
§ 4. But he saith, I should not call it [a falshood, or untruth] but a mistake. Answ. This is a sharper word; for it signifieth the fault of the mistaker usually; whereas by speaking de objecto, that it is false, I leave it to others how far the reporter is to be blamed. But sure most Logical Disputations are Railings, if the words [ alsum] and [fallacia] be such.