A27058:687
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.
The next railing is [merciless, furious Bishop•, pag. 196] Ans. There is no such word: When I find where it is I shall see the occasion of it. Italy, Piedmont, Ireland, &c. have tried that there have been such.
The next railing is [merciless, fur••us Bishop•, pag. 196] Ans. There is no such word: When I find where it is I shall see the occasion of it. Italy, Piedmont, Ireland, &c. have tried that there have been such.
The last is pag. 183. [The Confounders of Churches.] Ans. I thought I had merited of them by my impartiality and lenity: As after I commend the Wisdom & peaceableness of Pope H•norius, (though a General Council even for that made him an Heretic,) so I here justly commend the Wisdom and Peaceableness of Pope Vigilius, who advised the Council to leave dead men to God (Theod. M•ps. Theodorite and Ibis] and not dam• them when God hath judged them already, and yet not to admit any of their wrong opinions] I ••y T•is was the right way: If they had all dealt as visely and Christianlike, Councils •ad not been the Confounders of the C•u•ch•• ] Is this railing? At last they forced Pope Vig•lius to subscribe to them, and it so confounded the Churches, that a great part of Italy itself forsook the Church of Rome for it, and set up another head against the Pope a• 100 Years. Was not this confusion? And must it not be known?