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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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CHAP. XVII. His Censure of my Design, and Church-Principles, considered.
§ 1. AS to this his first Chapter I have before showed how falsely he reporteth my design. He saith he never saw any thing which more reflecteth on Religion: Lucian and Julian have left nothing half so scandalous in all their Libels against Christians, as this Church-History has raked up: Here is nothing to be seen in his Book but the Avarice, Ignorance, Mistakes and furious Contentions of the Governors of the Church.
§ 1. AS to this his first Chapter I have before shewed how falsly he reporteth my design. He saith he never saw any thing which more reflecteth on Religion: Lucian and Julian have left nothing ha•f so scandalous in all their Libels against Christians, as this Church-History has raked up: Here is nothing to be seen in his Book but the Avarice, Ignorance, Mistakes and furious Contentions of the Governours of the Church.
Ans. How false that is the Reader may see in all the beginning, the two Chapters in the end, and much in the midst, which are written contrarily to obviate such false thoughts 2. Is the ascendent sort of Prelates that were growing up to maturity till ⟨p. 113⟩Gregory the Seventh's days, the whole Church of God? Are there no other Christians? Is all that is written against the Pope and such Ascendents, written against Christianity? Did Christ speak against Christianity, when he reproved them for striving who should be greatest? or Peter, when he counselled them, as