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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.
3. Do you not know now living, those Episcopal Conformists, who refuse no part of your Conformity, and are much against Presbytery, who since the Discovery of the Papists Plot, are so much afraid of Popery, and so confident that too many of the Clergy are prepared for it, that a little more would turn them from you, though they love Presbytery as little as they love your selves.
In a word, The Old Clergy and the Parliament Men agreed. The New Clergy in Bishop Laud's time distasted them; & the Scots Presbyterians helping them in their straits, partly turned some of them, and partly imposed on them unpleasing conditions.
But saith he, [The Erastians and Independents were at first inconsiderable, and acted jointly with the Presbyterians, &c.]
But saith he, [The Erastians and Independents were at first inconsiderable, and acted joyntly with the Presbyterians, &c.]
Answ. Thus is History delivered to the deluded World! Neither Independency nor Presbytery were understood by many till the War was begun. The Scots Commissioners by degrees acquainted them with Presbytery, and Mr. Burton's Protestation Protested, and the five Dissenters with Independency: Two or three Independents were in the House of Lords, and some few in the House of Commons: It was Episcopal-men that made up the main Body: These were of two sorts: The one sort thought Episcopacy of Divine Institution, but not Chancellors, Deans and Chapters, Arch-Deacons, Officials, &c. The other sort thought that Episcopacy, not rampant, was the best Government Jure humano; But that the Magistrate being Chief, might set it up, or take it down, as he see most for the common good. These were called by some Erastians: And that these at first were inconsiderable, is History written in despite of Evidence. Let any man 1. Read what Parliaments formerly said; 2. And what many English Divines wrote for the Jus humanum against the Jus Divinum; and what Testimony Prin hath given of it; 3. And what Dr. Stillingfleet hath produced for it in his Irenicon;