A27058:578
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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3. Doth my large profession of Subjection in my Second Plea for Peace not yet blamed by them herein agree with this?
4. I willingly took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and an Oath to be true to the King as his Chaplain in ordinary, and had this any such signification?
5. Did my begging in vain a License from Bishop Morley, and craving and obtaining one of Bishop Sheldon, signify this?
5. Did my begging in vain a License from Bishop Morley, and craving and obtaining one of Bishop Sheldon, signifie this?
6. But the smile is that one would think by these words, I might have preached by the Governors License and would not. And is that true? Did I not preach by the Kings License, and the Clergy blame me for it? And as for the Bishops License I do profess that it's yet in force, and I do preach by it. If I mistake it is not my refusing it. If he intimate as he seems, that by the Bishops License I might have had leave to preach in the Parish Churches, it's now too late: But I would I had known how to get it. I confess one Summer in the Country about 25 miles off, I did venture upon the Credit of my License (at Amersham, Chesham, Rickmersworth, &c.) But it was too pleasing work to me to be continued: One Church in Southwark I was once let into, but no more in or near London. I once craved leave of the moderate Bishop that now is, that without putting down the meeting where I was in that great Parish of St. Martin's, I might preach sometime there and once a day at the Chapel