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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He saith, I leave my sting behind me, and end very angrily; for these only words [This is their strength] mentioning the Councils (that was against Athanasius) suppressing Dissenters as seditious by force. I see angry men think others angry when they are, and are stung if we do but name their stinging us: As if Prisons and Ruin were not so sharp a sting as these four words. If it be not their strength, why do they so trust to it, as to confess that their Arguments and Keys would do little to uphold their Prelacy without it. In the days of the Usurpers I moved for a Petition, that when they granted Liberty of Conscience for so many others, they would grant Liberty for the full exercise of the Episcopal Government to all that desired it. But the Episcopal Party that I spake to, would not endure it, as knowing what bare Liberty would be to their Cause, unless they could have the Sword to suppress those that yield not to their Reasons.
He saith, I leave my sting behind me, and end very angrily; for these only words [This is their strength] mentioning the Councils (that was against Athanasius) suppressing Dissenters as seditious by force. I see angry men think others angry when they are, and are stung if we do but name their stinging us: As if Prisons and Ruine were not so sharp a sting as these four words. If it be not their strength, why do they so trust to it, as to confess that their Arguments and Keyes would do little to uphold their Prelacy without it. In the daies of the Usurpers I moved for a Petition, that when they granted Liberty of Conscience for so many others, they would grant Liberty for the full exercise of the Episcopal Government to all that desired it. But the Episcopal Party that I spake to, would not endure it, as knowing what bare Liberty would be to their Cause, unless they could have the Sword to suppress those that yield not to their Reasons.
§ 12. Next he saith, I spare my Gall for about a dozen times, ⟨p. 132⟩not regarding how it contradicts his former Accusations.
§ 12. Next he saith, I spare my Gall for about a dozentimes,