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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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Here he supposeth me one that is unfit; and particularly saith [Whether any hath •ailed with greater intemperance, and less provocation] Ans. 1. I am not the Author of the History of the mentioned Councils or Popes or Bishops, but the Transcriber. Let ⟨p. 105⟩me be as bad as you, or any of your tribe have made me, that proveth not that Socrates, Sozomen, Theodorite, Nitephorus, &c. or Binnius, Baronius, &c. have misreported what they write. If I have misreported these authors in any material point, prove it and I will soon retract it.
As for my railing, I expect that title from all such whose faults I name, and call them to repentance: He that calls men to Repent, calleth them sinners, and that is Railing he it never so great.
His first instanced railing is Pag. 19. [A few turbulent Prelates Persecute good men] He saith thus I call the present Bishops of the Church of England; Doth he mean All or some? If All he is an untrue Historian: He may see many named before my Apology whom I except: And if I have named two I have annexed the proof.