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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
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.
I will instance in Twenty particulars of public notice; for those against particular persons, even my self, are not to be numbered.
I will instance in Twenty particulars of publick notice; for those against particular persons, even my self, are not to be numbred.
I. It is now commonly taken for true, that the present Nonconformists, who gave in their Desires for Concord 1660. are of the same Judgment as those called Nonconformists heretofore, and whatever can be raked up out of Christ. Goodman, Knox, Kilby, or is reported by Bancroft, is partly chargeable on them, when as their proposed Desires yet show the world that they never made any motion against many things by those aforesaid scrupled, in Doctrine, Worship, and Ceremony.
I. It is now commonly taken for true, that the present Nonconformists, who gave in their Desires for Concord 1660. are of the same Judgment as those called Nonconformists heretofore, and whatever can be raked up out of Christ. Goodman, Knox, Kilby, or is reported by Bancroft, is partly chargeable on them, when as their proposed Desires yet shew the world that they never made any motion against many things by those aforesaid scrupled, in Doctrine, Worship, and Ceremony.
And it is commonly supposed by them, that the present Conformity is but the same as the Old, and the Case no harder to us: And this notwithstanding all the still visible Acts and Alterations, and Additions, which attest the contrary to all the world.