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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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§ 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.
See what a man may do for a Bishopric? It reminds me of many good Canons that forbid Bishops swearing their Clergy to them; And of our Et Caetera Oath in 1640 never to Consent to ⟨p. 125⟩any alteration, (to say nothing of our times) and the old Oath of Canonical obedience. It strikes horror into mens minds now that we scruple these.
See what a man may do for a Bishoprick? It reminds me of many good Canons that forbid Bishops swearing their Clergy to them; And of our Et Caetera Oath in 1640 never to Consent to ⟨p. 125⟩any alteration, (to say nothing of our times) and the old Oath of Canonical obedience. It strikes horror into mens minds now that we scruple these.
§ 25. He maketh the Novatian doctrine blasphemous (without railing) and me too Favourable in representing it. As to that I suppose he is not ignorant how great a Controversy it is what they held, even among the greatest Antiquaries, and Enemies of Schism and Heresy. And I use in accusations to meet with most truth in the most Favourable interpretations.
§ 25. He maketh the Novatian doctrine blasphemous (without railing) and me too Favourable in representing it. As to that I suppose he is not ignorant how great a Controversie it is what they held, even among the greatest Antiquaries, and Enemies of Schism and Heresie. And I use in accusations to meet with most truth in the most Favourable interpretations.