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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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§ 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?
Q. What was these mens Heresie?
He saith, This looks liker a piece of Policy than Moderation, for it had no tendency to peace, but to strengthen the Schism.]