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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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Answ. 1. Doth he know my thoughts? 2. It's true I intended not to do any other Justice, than to praise Christ's Martyrs and Confessors, while I lament the Case of Persecutors and Revolters? Is the praise of Confessors any honour to the Heretics?
Answ. 1. Doth he know my thoughts? 2. It's true I intended not to do any other Justice, than to praise Christ's Martyrs and Confessors, while I lament the Case of Persecutors and Revolters? Is the praise of Confessors any honour to the Hereticks?
But perhaps he means, I right the Order of Bishops. Answ. Did I ever say or think that there were no Bishops that kept the Faith? Do I say All fell, when I say Most fell? The Man speaks as his imagined Interest leads him, and so interpreteth my words to his own sense, not as written. And if that be the ⟨p. 137⟩right way, I think he will grant that there were more Martyrs and Sufferers under Valens, Constantius, Hunnericus, and Gensericus, in the East, and in Afric, by far, than were when their Trial came in all the West that is now subject to the Pope. And what moved the man to dream that when I so describe and praise their constancy in Suffering, I did it as at unawares?
But perhaps he means, I right the Order of Bishops. Answ. Did I ever say or think that there were no Bishops that kept the Faith? Do I say All fell, when I say Most fell? The Man speaks as his imagined Interest leads him, and so interpreteth my words to his own sense, not as written. And if that be the ⟨p. 137⟩right way, I think he will grant that there were more Martyrs and Sufferers under Valens, Constantius, Hunnericus, and Gensericus, in the East, and in Africk, by far, than were when their Tryal came in all the West that is now subject to the Pope. And what moved the man to dream that when I so describe and praise their constancy in Suffering, I did it as at unawares?