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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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Obj. But the Circumcellians were worse than the rest.
Answ. They were of the same Religion, but the unruly furious part in their practice: And Optatus saith, Though they would rail in words [sed unum quidem vix invevimus cum quo p•r literas, vel hoc modo loquatur:] And so goes on to call Parmenian his Brother. And it's worth the consideration how much Albaspine includeth in Fraternity; note first, & in Observat.
Answ. They were of the same Religion, but the unruly furious part in their practice: And Optatus saith, Though they would rail in words [sed unum quidem vix inveuimus cum quo p•r literas, vel hoc modo loquatur:] And so goes on to call Parmenian his Brother. And it's worth the consideration how much Albaspine includeth in Fraternity; note first, & in Observat.
3. And they were Orthodox fierce Prelatists, doing all this for the preeminence of their Bishops. And what if some Prelatists now should hurt their Brethren more than the Circumcellians did, must I call them therefore the most barbarous Villains that ever defamed Christianity. Augustine saith, They made a Water of some Salt or sharp thing, and cast in mens Eyes in the night in the streets: No man can think that this barbarous action was done by the most, or any but some furious fools: They say that they would wound themselves to bring hatred on the Catholics, as if they had done it, or drove them to it: He that knoweth what Self-love is, will believe that this was the case but of a few; and an easier wrong than some that abhor them do to their Brethren. And must we needs Rail indeed against such numbers of hurtful Prelatists? What if any rude persons of your Church should be Whoremongers, Drunkards, Blasphemers, and seek the Imprisonment of their Brethren, yea their Defamation and Blood by Perjury, should the Church be for their sakes so called, as you call them? I speak them no fairer than Optatus did.