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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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I little regarded all the rest: But Dr. Allestry had many Years been my old School-Fellow; many a time I had taught ••im; and he was the best at Learning, and of the honestest Disposition▪ of any Boy that ever I knew; and I thought, if Parties could draw such as he into such Guilt, there was little Account to be made of the Reports or History of Men, if once they fell into different Factions, Wherefore I wrote to him what Mr. Humphrey told me, and received from him this honest ingenuous Letter, which I here annex.
I little regarded all the rest: But Dr. Allestry had many Years been my old School-Fellow; many a time I had taught ••im; and he was the best at Learning, and of the honestest Disposition▪ of any Boy that ever I knew; and I thought, if Parties could draw such as he into such Guilt, there was little Account to be made of the Reports or History of Men, if once they fell into different Factions, Wherefore I wrote to him what Mr. Humfrey told me, and received from him this honest ingenuous Letter, which I here annex.
And as to all this Story, I do here solemnly profess, That I never killed, wounded, or hurt any Man in my Life, (save one Man, whose Leg I hurt with playful Wrestling, when I was a Boy, and once or twice boxing with School-Boys, and correcting •ads when I was one Year a School-Master.) Nor in all the Wars, or in my life did I ever see any other kill any Man, save one; and that was at the same Bickering, (about Forty of a Side) when Jennings was wounded: While they were Fighting with him in one great Field, I being in another near the House, saw the Soldiers offering Quarter to a Foot-Soldier, and promising him Safety, if he would lay down his Musket; which he did not, but struck at them; and Captain Holdich shot him dead▪ And it proved after to be a Welsh man, that understood not English; which grieved them when they knew it.