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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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§ 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.
§ 16. I praised a Donatist's Council of 270 Bishops at Carthage for Moderation, agreeing to communicate with penitent Traditors, without Rebaptizing them, and so doing for 40 years.
Q. What was these mens Heresy?