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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.
XVIII. Yea they have by writing, preaching and talking made multitudes believe that the Nonconformists or Presbyterians have been long hatching a rebellion against the King, and have a Plot to take down Monarchy under pretence of opposing Popery. And how far these Historians are to be believed, true Protestants by this time partly understand.
XVIII. Yea they have by writing, preaching and talking made multitudes believe that the Nonconformists or Presbyterians have been long hatching a rebellion against the King, and have a Plot to take down Monarchy under pretence of opposing Poperty. And how far these Historians are to be believed, true Protestants by this time partly understand.
XIX. Yea these Historians have made multitudes believe that the Parliaments that have been dissolved here of late years have been designing to change the Government of Church and state, under pretence of opposing Popery. As if that Parliament that did that for them and against us which is done, and made all the Acts which are for the Renunciation of the Covenant, and for all the Declarations, Subscriptions and Practices Imposed, and for Fining us 20 l. and 40 l. a Sermon, and laying us in Gaols, ⟨p. 90⟩had been for Nonconformists, and against Episcopacy; and they that made the Militia Act, and such other had been against the King or his Prerogative: Or the other following had not been of the same Religion.
XIX. Yea these Historians have made multitudes believe that the Parliaments that have been disolved here of late years have been designing to change the Government of Church and state, under pretence of opposing Popery. As if that Parliament that did that for them and against us which is done, and made all the Acts which are for the Renunciation of the Covenant, and for all the Declarations, Subscriptions and Practices Imposed, and for Fining us 20 l. and 40 l. a Sermon, and laying us in Gaols, ⟨p. 90⟩