A27058:587
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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There are abundance of Malignants, that acknowledge the Good Lives of those they call Puritans (and if he had not had the late Wars between King and Parliament to fill all Mouths and Books against them, the Devil by this time might have been at a loss with what Accusations to reproach them. For he was put to use the Voices (no names) of [Roundheads, Whigs, &c. when their Revilers were called Drunkards. Swearers, Dam-me's, &c.] But they that confess the Good, reproach them as Hypocrites that do but counterfeit it. Doth this acknowledgement ⟨p. 98⟩prove them Puritans. I suppose Mr. M. knoweth that no small number of Historians and Fathers confess the strictness of the Novatians Lives, and yet were no Novatians. And Constantine's words to Acesius imply that he thought him singularly strict. And Mr. M. saith Pref. [The Novatians, saith the Author, did not suffer much by this Edict, being befriended by the Emperor, who had an esteem for their Bishop of C. P. upon the account of his Holiness.] And may not an Orthodox man confess the Piety of others?
There are abundance of Malignants, that acknowledge the Good Lives of those they call Puritanes (and if he had not had the late Wars between King and Parliament to fill all Mouths and Books against them, the Devil by this time might have been at a loss with what Accusations to reproach them. For he was put to use the Voices (no names) of [Roundheads, Whigs, &c. when their Revilers were called Drunkards. Swearers, Dam-me's, &c.] But they that confess the Good, reproach them as Hypocrites that do but counterfeit it. Doth this acknowledgment ⟨p. 98⟩prove them Puritanes. I suppose Mr. M. knoweth that no small number of Historians and Fathers confess the strictness of the Novatians Lives, and yet were no Novatians. And Constantine's words to Acesius imply that he thought him singularly strict. And Mr. M. saith Pref. [The Novatians, saith the Author, did not suffer much by this Edict, being besriended by the Emperour, who had an esteem for their Bishop of C. P. upon the account of his Holiness.] And may not an Orthodox man confess the Piety of others?