A27058:824
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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8. Did not the West actually fall to Arianism when tempted for the most part? Judge by the great Council at Milan, and by Hillary's complaints.
8. Did not the West actually fall to Arianism when tempted for the most part? Judge by the great Council at Milane, and by Hillary's complaints.
9. Hath Rome and the West stood faster to the Truth since then? What! all the Popes who are by Councils charged with Heresy or Infidelity, and all wickedness, and those many whose Lives even by Baronius and Genebrard, are so odiously described? Is the West at this day free from Popery and its fruits?
9. Hath Rome and the West stood faster to the Truth since then? What! all the Popes who are by Councils charged with Heresie or Infidelity, and all wickedness, and those many whose Lives even by Baronius and Genebrard, are so odiously described? Is the West at this day free from Popery and its fruits?
10. Do you think in your conscience that if we had not here a Protestant King, but a Papist, many of the Clergy would not be Papists? Why then are they so in France, Spain, Italy, Poland, &c? And why did the most of them turn in Qu. Mary's days? I do not insult, but lament the Churches Case, which ever since Wealth and Honour, and too much Power corrupted it, have had Bishops far more worldly, and less faithful than they were the first three hundred years. Though I still say that ever since, God hath in all times raised some serious Believers that have kept up serious Piety in the Church: And as I doubt not but there are so many such among the Conformists, as is our great Joy, so I hope that, though foully blotted with Superstition and Error, there are many such among the Papists themselves.