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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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But me thinks when Mr. M. had said that Socrates is an Historian of good Credit and acquainted with them] he much forgot his own ends when he recited these words as his [Some took part with Novatian, and others with Cornelius; according to their several inclinations and Course of life: The looser and more licentious sort Favouring the most indulgent discipline, the other of more austere lives inclining most to the Novatian severity.] Good still, I now see that the Novatians indeed were Puritans, though Episcopal, and I accuse not our accusers of any such Heresy. But I confess that I shall believe a Novatian Historian, who being so strict against sin must be strict against a Lie, rather than those that Scorn such Puritanism, and deride the Person that cannot swallow a bigger Pill.
But me thinks when Mr. M. had said that Socrates is an Historian of good Credit and acquainted with them] he much forgot his own ends when he recited these words as his [Some took part with Novatian, and others with Cornelius; according to their several inclinations and Course of life: The looser and more licentious sort Favouring the most indulgent discipline, the other of more austere lives inclining most to the Novatian severity.] Good still, I now see that the Novatians indeed were Puritanes, though Episcopal, and I accuse not our accusers of any such Heresie. But I confess that I shall believe a Novatian Historian, who being so strict against sin must be strict against a Lie, rather than those that Scorn such Puritanism, and deride the Person that cannot swallow a bigger Pill.
And when Mr. M. labours to show out of Socrates that it ⟨p. 128⟩was not only Idolatry that they censured, he labours in vain: It was the beginning of their Schism that I mentioned, and not Socrates his Age.
And when Mr. M. labours to shew out of Socrates that it ⟨p. 128⟩was not only Idolatry that they censured, he labours in vain: It was the beginning of their Schism that I mentioned, and not Socrates his Age.