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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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§ 1. This is not so. 1. I write oft for the great usefulness of Councils. 2. I justly praise no small number of them, especially before the great Rising of the Bishops, for the first 300 or 400 years: He once acknowledgeth it of the African Councils: And he might have seen the like of many Spanish, and some French and Germane Councils: The English I little meddled with. 3. The First General Council at Nice I justly honour; yea and the Three following, and many more than three, for the soundness of their Faith, and as having many very laudable persons in them; though I show the ill effects of their contention and ambition.
§ 1. THis is not so. 1. I write oft for the great usefulness of Councils. 2. I justly praise no small number of them, especially before the great Rising of the Bishops, for the first 300 or 400 years: He once acknowledgeth it of the African Councils: And he might have seen the like of many Spanish, and some French and Germane Councils: The English I little medled with. 3. The First General Council at Nice I justly honour; yea and the Three following, and many more than three, for the soundness of their Faith, and as having many very laudable persons in them; though I shew the ill effects of their contention and ambition.
I have heard some Conformists confess the great Learning and piety of the Westminster Synod in 1642. and of the Synod of Dort, where we had Delegates: and yet sharplier speak against the Acts of both by far, than I have done by any such pious Persons. Even they that have honoured Bishop Carlton, Bishop Hall, Bishop Davenant, Dr. Ward, &c. that were there, have yet bitterly reproached the Decrees which they subscribed. And how many as well as Dr Heylin have written and spoken ill of A. Bishop Usher, of A. Bishop Abbot, A. Bishop Grindai, A. Bishop Parker (yea of A. Bishop Whitguif• for the Lambeth-Articles which I justify not) who yet have a great honour both for Bishops and their Councils.
I have heard some Conformists confess the great Learning and piety of the Westminister Synod in 1642. and of the Synod of Dort, where we had Delegates: and yet sharplier speak against the Acts of both by far, than I have done by any such pious Persons. Even they that have honoured Bishop Carlton, Bishop Hall, Bishop Davenant, Dr. Ward, &c. that were there, have yet bitterly reproached the Decrees which they subscribed. And how many as well as Dr Heylin have written and spoken ill of A. Bishop Usher, of A. Bishop Abbot, A. Bishop Grindai, A. Bishop Parker (yea of A. Bishop Whitguif for the Lambeth-Articles which I justifie not) who yet have a great honour both for Bishops and their Councils.