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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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§ 17. Whether the Donatists be like the Papists or the Separatists (much less to the Nonconformists) if the Reader will but peruse what I have said and what Mr. M. hath said, I am content that he judge without more words.
§ 18. He passeth by divers Councils because he could not say that I blame them: And he passeth by Constantine's Epistle to Alexander and Arius, which raileth at them more than I do (in his sense.)
§ 18. He passeth by divers Councils because he could not say that I blame them: And he passeth by Constantine's Epistle to Alexander and Arius, which raileth at them more than I do (in his sence.)
As to the Council of Laodicea, it is not two or three such words as his that will make an impartial man believe that the Churches were like our Dioceses, when every Convert before baptism was to say his Catechism to the Bishops or his Presbyters: Or that the Command that Presbyters go still with the Bishop into the Church, and not before him, do not both imply that they were both together in every Church.
As to the Council of Laodicea, it is not two or three such words as his that will make an impartial man believe that the Churches were like our Diocesses, when every Convert before baptism was to say his Catechism to the Bishops or his Presbyters: Or that the Command that Presbyters go still with the Bishop into the Church, and not before him, do not both imply that they were both together in every Church.