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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
The particular Defence of the History of Councils and Schisms. › Chapter 18: Of his Second Chapter.
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§ 10. He passeth by Bishop Stephens Excommunicating all the Oriental Bishops of Cappadocia, Cilicia, Galatia, and Reprobating their Synods, for Rebaptization: Doth he think that even then some Bishops did not rise too fast?
§ 11. The man that is so angry with me for telling of the faults of Bishops and Councils, is pag. 87. angry with me for not saying worse against Secundus his Council of Bishops at Cirta; and saith, I have not done right to the Catholic Church: I perceive the question is not, whether I may Rail at Bishops, but what Bishops they be that I must Rail at.
§ 11. The man that is so angry with me for telling of the faults of Bishops and Councils, is pag. 87. angry with me for not saying worse against Secundus his Council of Bishops at Cirta; and saith, I have not done right to the Catholick Church: I perceive the question is not, whether I may Rail at Bishops, but what Bishops they be that I must Rail at.
As for the Council at Sinuessa, I believed the being of it no more than he doth: And when I am but naming the common Catalogue, he might pardon my modesty for saying that the being of it is a Controversy.
As for the Council at Sinuessa, I believed the being of it no more than he doth: And when I am but naming the common Catalogue, he might pardon my modesty for saying that the being of it is a Controversie.