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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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XI. These Historians say that I and such others take the things which we conform not to, to be but inconveniences and not sins; And that we keep the Nation in Schism while we confess the things to be but Indifferent And our writings are visible in which we profest the contrary, and laboured by many arguments to prove it and protested that we would conform if we took them not to be sins. And we gave in a Catalogue of what we judged to be sins: And this before the New Conformity was imposed: And since the fiercest displeasure is against us for telling them what we account Sin, and how great: When many years together our Rulers and the People were told that we confessed them indifferent and refused them but to avoid offending our followers.
XI. These Historians say that I and such others take the things which we conform not to, to be but inconveniences and not sins; And that we keep the Nation in Schisme while we confess the things to be but Indifferent And our writings are visible in which we profest the contrary, and laboured by many arguments to prove it and protested that we would conform if we took them not to be sins. And we gave in a Catalogue of what we judged to be sins: And this before the New Conformity was imposed: And since the fiercest displeasure is against us for telling them what we account Sin, and how great: When many years together our Rulers and the People were told that we confessed them indifferent and refused them but to avoid offending our followers.
XII. We frequently hear from them that we oppose Episcopacy because we cannot be Bishops our selves: When its known that nothing could more put men out of all such hopes than the Presbyterians Endeavours that both their power and wealth should be taken down: And he that hath any desires of a Bishopric should sure be for the keeping of them up. And the same men reprove us for refusing Bishoprics and Deanries, and say we did it to please the People.
XII. We frequently hear from them that we oppose Episcopacy because we cannot be Bishops our selves: When its known that nothing could more put men out of all such hopes than the Presbyterians Endeavours that both their power and wealth should be taken down: And he that hath any desires of a Bishoprick should sure be for the keeping of them up. And the same men reprove us for refusing Bishopricks and Deanries, and say we did it to please the People.