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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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§ 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⟩might be. Much less am I for such work as the Council at Later an sub Innoc. 3 made, no nor that at Florence.
§ 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 Forreign 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 Patriacks against each other or of such Princes as Constantius, Valens, Theodosius junior, Anastasius Philippicus, Justinian, Irene, &c. to fulfill their own mistaken wills, how honest soever the men ⟨p. 79⟩might be. Much less am I for such work as the Council at Later an sub Innoc. 3 made, no nor that at Florence.
§ 3 And I take it for an Act of great Prudence in this my accuser, while he is vindicating Bishops Councils, to go no further than the four first General, when it is many hundred that I have mentioned. And is it not really an intimated accusation of them to vindicate so few of above 400. And those such as for their faith we all own.