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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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3. He speaks without distinction or Exception, and so must be understood to say that this Church history would have us to believe that even President Bishops Ejusdem Ordinis had de facto no Superiority at all over Presbyters in the same Churches and of the same order with them, which is an untruth so gross as is no Credit to our Historian. I have named both more than one rank of Bishops whose Superiority de Jure I deny not: & Popes, Patriarchs, Primates, Diocesans who deposed the Bishops of single Churches, whose Superiority de facto I fully enough affirm, in the ages and degrees in which they did ascend.
3. He speaks without distinction or Exception, and so must be understood to say that this Church history would have us to believe that even President Bishops Ejusdem Ordinis had de facto no Superiority at all over Presbyters in the same Churches and of the same order with them, which is an untruth so gross as is no Credit to our Historian. I have named both more than one ranck of Bishops whose Superiority de Jure I deny not: & Popes, Patriarchs, Primates, Diocesans who deposed the Bishops of single Churches, whose Superiority de facto I fully enough affirm, in the ages and degrees in which they did ascend.
If he say that he meant it [Even from the Apostles time, and that of such Diocesans as have scores or hundreds of true Churches and Altars without their particular Bishops, or any Presbyters that were Ejusdem Ordinis with the Bishops, and were Episcopi Gregis, and that had such Power of the Keys over their flocks, as ours have not: or that had so many such Assemblies that were no true Churches;] if he will be proved a Historian worthy Credit, Let him give us any proof that all men described by him agreed de facto that there was so long, such a superiority of such Bishops. But these ⟨p. 104⟩men deride distinguishing, and banish Logic, that is Reason, from their History.
If he say that he meant it [Even from the Apostles time, and that of such Diocesans as have scores or hundreds of true Churches and Altars without their particular Bishops, or any Presbyters that were Ejusdem Ordinis with the Bishops, and were Episcopi Gregis, and that had such Power of the Keys over their flocks, as ours have not: or that had so many such Assemblies that were no true Churches;] if he will be proved a Historian worthy Credit, Let him give us any proof that all men described by him agreed de facto that there was so long, such a superiority of such Bishops. But these