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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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§ 13. As to his Controversy, whether Bishops, or such as strove to be Bishops, were the very first movers of the Donatists Controversy, who should be Bishop, it's not worth the turning over one Book to search, as to my business.
§ 13. As to his Controversie, whether Bishops, or such as strove to be Bishops, were the very first movers of the Donatists Controversie, who should be Bishop, it's not worth the turning over one Book to search, as to my business.
§ 14. Next he that accuseth me of Railing at Bishops, accuseth me for saying (from some good Authors) that a Bishop of Carthage, Donatus, was a good man, who he saith was bad. It's little to me whether he were good or bad.
§ 15. Next he noteth that I Err with Binnius and Baronius as to the year of a Carthage Council. I undertook not to justify all the Chronology or History that I transcribe: Whether Optatus, or Binnius and Baronius hit on the just year, little care I.
§ 15. Next he noteth that I Err with Binnius and Baronius as to the year of a Carthage Council. I undertook not to justifie all the Chronology or History that I transcribe: Whether Optatus, or Binnius and Baronius hit on the just year, little care I.