A27058:819
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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3. Is not this the same man that even now ••id the fall of far more Bishops, even most in the World, on the Emperor, as overcoming them by force and fraud?
3. Is not this the same man that even now ••id the fall of far more Bishops, even most in the World, on the Emperour, as overcoming them by force and fraud?
4. Doth not God himself keep men usually from strong temptations, when he will deliver them from sin?
5. Were not the Eastern Bishops, and the Western, of the same mould and temper? And if the Eastern followed the Emperors, ⟨p. 136⟩had not the Western been in danger if they had the like temptation?
5. Were not the Eastern Bishops, and the Western, of the same mold and temper? And if the Eastern followed the Emperours, ⟨p. 136⟩had not the Western been in danger if they had the like temptation?