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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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§ 23. But this Defender of Surgent Prelacy, sticks not to disgrace those whom he seemeth to defend. It was three of the Catholic Bishops that Consecrated Novatian, and (without railing) he calls them Three plain ignorant Bishops. These good men suspecting no trick, and overcome with his good entertainment, with too much Wine and persuasions, were forced at last to lay their hands on him and Consecrate him Bishop.] 1. Ignorant Bishops; 2. Overcome with too much Wine, and entertainment: 3. And with persuasion: 4. To do such an Act as to Consecrate so bad a Bishop, & that in such a city as Rome, and that without the Churches choice or Consent. How much worse have I said of Bishops? But, yet [they were good men.] But if they had been Nonconformists, what names had been bad enough for them? No doubt if they had been sequestered and cast out (for their too much wine and such ordination) how odiously might the agents have been described as enemies to the Church and Persecutors of good men.
§ 23. But this Defender of Surgent Prelacy, sticks not to disgrace those whom he seemeth to defend. It was three of the Catholick Bishops that Consecrated Novatian, and (without railing) he calls them Three plain ignorant Bishops. These good men suspecting no trick, and overcome with his good entertainment, with too much Wine and perswasions, were forced at last to lay their hands on him and Consecrate him Bishop.] 1. Ignorant Bishops; 2. Overcome with too much Wine, and entertainment: 3. And with perswasion: 4. To do such an Act as to Consecrate so bad a Bishop, & that in such a city as Rome, and that without the Churches choice or Consent. How much worse have I said of Bishops? But, yet [they were good men.] But if they had been Nonconformists, what names had been bad enough for them? No doubt if they had been sequestred and cast out (for their too much wine and such ordination) how odiously might the agents have been described as enemies to the Church and Persecutors of good men.
§ 24. Yet further this New Bishop engageth men to him by Oaths, enough to strike a horror in the minds of the Reader, saith he.