A27058:689
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.
Reader, as far as I understand them, the Paraphrase of these mens words, is [If we kindle a fire in the Church, name it nor, much less call any to quench it: or else we'll say it's you that kindle it: say not you are excommunicate or silenced when you are, though it be by Thousands: else we will prove that you are railer•: If we lay you in Gaols and take all you have, do not say, you h•rt us, much less you wrong us: take not on you to know or feel when you are hurt: else we will have an Action of railing against you.
§ 8. That w•i•h followeth I answered before: But after he finds a notable piece of my ignorance. The Pope inviting the ⟨p. 112⟩King of Denmark to conquer a Province of Heretics, I know not who they were unless they were the Waldenses: Well guest, saith Mr. M. Waldo was in 1160, 80 Years after. Ans. This will serve for men willing to be deceived. It was the Persons and Religion, and not the name that I spoke of. Doth not he know that Rainerius himself saith, that those Persons (called Albigenses, Waldenses, and other such names) professed that their way of Religion was Apostolical, and they derived it down from Silvester's, that is Constantine's time? If I did not guess well I wrong no Bishops by i•: and I confessed my Ignorance that I knew not whom the Pope meant: And why did not this callent Historian tell us who they were?
§ 8. That w•i•h followeth I answered before: But after he finds a notable piece of my ignorance. The Pope inviting the ⟨p. 112⟩King of Denmark to conquer a Province of Hereticks, I know not who they were unless they were the Waldenses: Well guest, saith Mr. M. Waldo was in 1160, 80 Years after. Ans. This will serve for men willing to be deceived. It was the Persons and Religion, and not the name that I spoke of. Doth not he know that Rainerius himself saith, that those Persons (called Albigenses, Waldenses, and other such names) professed that their way of Religion was Apostolical, and they derived it down from Silvesters, that is Constantines time? If I did not guess well I wrong no Bishops by i: and I confessed my Ignorance that I knew not whom the Pope meant: And why did not this callent Historian tell us who they were?