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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.
CHAP. XX. Of the first General Council at Constantinople. His Cap. 4.
§ 1. HE begins with accusing me of imitating the Devil; Doth Job serve God for nought? because I say that [the reason why the West was freer from the Arian Heresy, than the East, was not as the Papists say, that Christ prayed for Peter, that his Faith might not fail, but because the Emperors in the West were Orthodox, and those in the East Arians: And the Bishops much followed the Emperor's will.]
§ 1. HE begins with accusing me of imitating the Devil; Doth Job serve God for nought? because I say that [the reason why the West was freer from the Arian Heresie, than the East, was not as the Papists say, that Christ prayed for Peter, that his Faith might not fail, but because the Emperours in the West were Orthodox, and those in the East Arians: And the Bishops much followed the Emperour's will.]
What, saith he, can be more unchristian?
Answ. 1. I never said that this was the Only Cause.