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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
Preface: To the Pious and Peaceable Protestant-Conforming Ministers, who are against our Subject…
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It is incredible with what joy this Edict was received by the People, and how the whole Camps applauded and rejoiced, as if they had been delivered from an invading Enemy, specially the Monks and Clergy having felt the Fathers greatest hatred, did lift up to Heaven their joyful voices: The Vulgar Men and Women danced, the Soldiers prayed all Prosperity to the Emperor: They broke their own Rosaries, and other mens as they met them, and burned some, saying, That it was enough for them that they BELIEVE CHRIST TO BE TRUE GOD and TRUE MAN, and THERE IS NO NEED OF DISPUTING ABOUT TWO NATURES, and so they returned to the old way.
It is incredible with what joy this Edict was received by the People, and how the whole Camps applauded and rejoiced, as if they had been delivered from an invading Enemy, specially the Monks and Clergy having felt the Fathers greatest hatred, did lift up to Heaven their joyful voices: The Vulgar Men and Women danced, the Soldiers prayed all Prosperity to the Emperour: They broke their own Rosaries, and other mens as they met them, and burned some, saying, That it was enough for them that they BELIEVE CHRIST TO BE TRUE GOD and TRUE MAN, and THERE IS NO NEED OF DISPUTING ABOUT TWO NATURES, and so they returned to the old way.
It's worth the noting here, that the Papists way was cast out as Novelty, and the other kept on the account of Antiquity: For Habassia never had received the Pope till the Portugals came to help them. Tet are they not ashamed here to call theirs the old Religion, because when they had banished the old, [which was simple Christianity] we returned to it by Reformation.
Besides the Doctrine of Two Natures, about which they saw they agreed in sense, while the Jesuits Hereticated them, three things much alienated the Abyssinians: 1. Denying them the Sacrament of the Eucharist in both kinds. 2. Rebaptizing their Children. 3. Reordaining their Priests.