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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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VI. These Historians would make the world believe that the Present Church, and such as they, did more than the Parliamentarians, and Presbyterians, and Nonconformists, to restore the King; when it is notoriously known, how oft their Attempts were defeated, and what the Scots Army under Hamilton underwent, to say nothing of the next; and of the Lord Delamore's Attempt, and what the Restored Parliament did: But sure I am, that the Old Parliament Soldiers, and Presbyterian Commanders and Soldiers in General Monk's Army, with those in England and Ireland that joined with him, and Sir Thomas Allen ⟨p. 87⟩Lord Mayor, with the Londoners, at the persuasion of the Presbyterian Ministers, drawing General Monk to join with them, did the main work, which the Council and Parliament after finished. When most of these men that will not endure the oblivion of Discords, nor the Reconciling and Union of the King's Subjects, do but start up to revile others, and blow the Coals again, and reap the fruit of other mens labours, that desire but to live in Peace.
VI. These Historians would make the world believe that the Present Church, and such as they, did more than the Parliamentarians, and Presbyterians, and Nonconformists, to restore the King; when it is notoriously known, how oft their Attempts were defeated, and what the Scots Army under Hamilton underwent, to say nothing of the next; and of the Lord Delamore's Attempt, and what the Restored Parliament did: But sure I am, that the Old Parliament Souldiers, and Presbyterian Commanders and Souldiers in General Monk's Army, with those in England and Ireland that joyned with him, and Sir Thomas Allen ⟨p. 87⟩Lord Mayor, with the Londoners, at the persuasion of the Presbyterian Ministers, drawing General Monk to joyn with them, did the main work, which the Council and Parliament after finished. When most of these men that will not endure the oblivion of Discords, nor the Reconciling and Union of the King's Subjects, do but start up to revile others, and blow the Coals again, and reap the fruit of other mens labours, that desire but to live in Peace.