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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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But, saith Mr. M. [Were they Episcopal who pray the King at Oxford to abolish A. Bishops and Bishops, &c. that entered into a Solemn League and Covenant against Episcopacy, and for Reforming the Church after the Presbyterian Platform, and set up Presbytery by so many Ordinances?]
But, saith Mr. M. [Were they Episcopal who pray the King at Oxford to abolish A. Bishops and Bishops, &c. that entred into a Solemn League and Covenant against Episcopacy, and for Reforming the Church after the Presbyterian Platform, and set up Presbytery by so many Ordinances?]
Answ. Distingue tempora is none of this Historians Principles. How long after the War begun was this Petition at Oxford, this Covenant, and these Ordinances? He proveth them Presbyterians ⟨p. 85⟩at first when they knew not what it was, because they were for Presbytery a year or two after: Negatur Sequela. The Scots taught afterwards the Assembly, and them that which they never knew before, 2. And all these Petitions & Ordinances showed not what they preferred as best, but what they preferred before expected ruin. The Issue proved this, and Heylin confesseth it, and saith, They never set up Presbytery in any one place (which yet is not true, though they did not force it.)
Answ. Distingue tempora is none of this Historians Principles. How long after the War begun was this Petition at Oxford, this Covenant, and these Ordinances? He proveth them Presbyterians ⟨p. 85⟩at first when they knew not what it was, because they were for Presbytery a year or two after: Negatur Sequela. The Scots taught afterwards the Assembly, and them that which they never knew before, 2. And all these Petitions & Ordinances shewed not what they preferred as best, but what they preferred before expected ruine. The Issue proved this, and Heylin confesseth it, and saith, They never set up Presbytery in any one place (which yet is not true, though they did not force it.)