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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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The first is D. Petavius in Epiphan. de Cath. Where first he tells us, that no less nor later men than most of the ancient Fathers, and Specially the Greeks, mistook Novatus and Novatian for one, or thought the sect had a single Author; naming Euseb. Theodoret, Epiphan. Nazian. Ambrose, Austin, Philastrius, yea and Socrates. Yet half as great a mistake in me would have been scorned.
2. Against Epiph. and Theodoret he saith [Non ea Novatiani Opinio fuit, eos qui gravioris peccati noxam contraherent, ab omni spe consequendae salutis excludi: Nam & illos ad capessendam poenitentiam hortari solebant: Et ut Divinam clementiam lach•ymis ac sordibus elicerent identidem admonebant: Sed hoc unum negabant; ad Ecclesiae fidelium Communionem recipi amplius oportere: Neque penes Ecclesiam reconciliandi jus ullum ac potestatem esse: Quippe unicam illam peccatorum indulgentiam in illius arbitrio versari, quae per Baptismum obtinetur; which he proveth out of Socrates, Ambrose. And he saith, that they were not counted Heretics for wronging the lapsed, by denying them Communion, but for wronging the Church Power, by denying the Power of the Keys for their Restitution. (Like enough.)
2. Against Epiph. and Theodoret he saith [Non ea Novatiani Opinio fuit, eos qui gravioris peccati noxam contraherent, ab omni spe consequendae salutis excludi: Nam & illos ad capessendam poenitentiam hortari solebant: Et ut Divinam clementiam lach•ymis ac sordibus elicerent identidem admonebant: Sed hoc unum negabant; ad Ecclesiae fidelium Communionem recipi amplius oportere: Neque penes Ecclesiam reconciliandi jus ullum ac potestatem esse: Quippe unicam illam peccatorum indulgentiam in illius arbitrio versari, quae per Baptismum obtinetur; which he proveth out of Socrates, Ambrose. And he saith, that they were not counted Hereticks for wronging the lapsed, by denying them Communion, but for wronging the Church Power, by denying the Power of the Keyes for their Restitution. (Like enough.)