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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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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.
§ 2. But I confess I am much of Nazianzen's mind, and I think I am no more against them in the general than he was. And I am against our subjection to the Jurisdiction of Foreign Councils, and the use that the Pope and ambitious Clergy have made of them, to become Masters of Princes and of the world: I am not for Ebbo's French Council which deposed Ludov. Pius, nor for making them either the Popes Army, or the Army of Patriarchs against each other or of such Princes as Constantius, Valens, Theodosius junior, Anastasius Philippicus, Justinian, Irene, &c. to fulfil their own mistaken wills, how honest soever the men ⟨p. 79⟩