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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
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§ 7. When some have blamed me for condemning the Arians too much, he saith, that I say some what very much to the disadvantage of the Doctrine of the Trinity, but he was so gentle as not to tell what it was, unless it be telling what Petavius the Jesuit saith: About that I am wholly of his own mind. But the express words which Petavius de Trinit. citeth out of all those Old Fathers, cannot be denied: And verily they are so many, and so gross, that unless his Argument satisfied me, viz. [The Votes of the Council of Nice showed what was the Common sense of the Church, better than the words of all those Fathers] I should think as Philostorgius in point of History, that there were no sufficient confuting of the Arians from those Fathers, though sometimes they have better words. Visible words cannot be denied, even where they must be lamented. That's the difference between Mr. M's. Opinion of History and mine.
§ 7. When some have blamed me for condemning the Arians too much, he saith, that I say some what very much to the disadvantage of the Doctrine of the Trinity, but he was so gentle as not to tell what it was, unless it be telling what Petavius the Jesuite saith: About that I am wholly of his own mind. But the express words which Petavius de Trinit. citeth out of all those Old Fathers, cannot be denied: And verily they are so many, and so gross, that unless his Argument satisfied me, viz. [The Votes of the Council of Nice shewed what was the Common sence of the Church, better than the words of all those Fathers] I should think as Philostorgius in point of History, that there were no sufficient confuting of the Arians from those Fathers, though sometimes they have better words. Visible words cannot be denied, even where they must be lamented. That's the difference between Mr. M's. Opinion of History and mine.
§ 8. As to the Audians, I recite but Epiphanius's words, who in other cases is greatly valued by these Accusers: They will believe what he saith of Aerius. And as to what he saith to the contrary out of Theodoret, he may see that he saith all by hearsay, and saith, that They hid that which he accuseth them of, and were Hypocrites, professing too much strictness, l. 4. c. 9. which is still the common way of accusing the best, against whom instead of provable faults, they turn their strictness into a crime. Epiphanius is much more particular than Theodoret in the story.