A27058:498
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.
§ 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.
§ 5. About a month or six weeks ago the Observator, the Churches Advocate published, That [a Captain of Horse of the King's, had the fortune to be dismounted, wounded and ⟨p. 75⟩stripped, and a Chaplain (naming me before) cut from about his neck a Medal, which the King had given him, and the Soldiers spared in the heat of blood] I sent him word how false this was: I never saw the man in my life that I know of; much less ever meddled with him: But was in a House where a Soldier brought a small silver-guilt Medal, about the bigness of a big Shilling, and said, he took it from about the neck of one Captain Jennings, whose Life he spared: He offered it to sale, and no one offering him more, I gave him eighteen pence for it in 1643. as I remember: And about 1648. hearing where Captain Jennings was, supposing it might be of great use to him, I sent it him as a gift by one Mr. Sommerfield.] And this slander is all the thanks I had. The Church-Advocate wrote me back, that he had it formally attested. I craved as a favour of him to tell me if Captain Jennings be living, how I might write to him. He answers me, that one was out of the way that he must first speak with, and I should shortly hear from him. The next I heard was as a second part of Dr. Stillingfleet, the foresaid Book full of cruel falsehood, taken from my having been for the Parliament, and from many distorted words of mine: Now when this Book renders me worse than a Jew, or Heathen, and unfit to live, some I fear will tell abroad that I am a Traitor, for saying, that [It is slanderous or untrue.]