A27058:837
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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§ 7. About the Priscillianists he saith [I all along observe this Rule, to be very favourable to all Heretics and Schismatics be they never so much in the wrong, and to fall on the Orthodox party and improve every miscarriage of theirs into a mighty crime.]
§ 7. About the Priscillianists he saith [I all along observe this Rule, to be very favourable to all Hereticks and Schismaticks be they never so much in the wrong, and to fall on the Orthodox party and improve every miscarriage of theirs into a mighty crime.]
Ans. If all along this accusation be false, then all a long your History serveth such a use. But in France, Spain, Italy, he is favourable to Heretics that takes not the orthodox for such, or that is not for racking and burning them. And in England he is favourable to Schismatics that taketh not the greatest lovers of Piety and peace for such, and the Church Tearers for Church-Healers: As Mr. Dodwell phraseth it, they are Schismatics that suffer themselves to be excommunicate (for unsinful things in the Bishops account, and heinous sin in theirs; and so that are not so ripe in Knowledge, as to know all the unsinful things to be such which may be imposed.
Ans. If all along this accusation be false, then all a long your History serveth such a use. But in France, Spain, Italy, he is favourable to Hereticks that takes not the orthodox for such, or that is not for racking and burning them. And in England he is favourable to Schismaticks that taketh not the greatest lovers of Piety and peace for such, and the Church Tearers for Church-Healers: As Mr. Dodwell phraseth it, they are Schismaticks that suffer themselves to be excommunicate (for unsinful things in the Bishops account, and heinous sin in theirs; and so that are not so ripe in Knowledge, as to know all the unsinful things to be such which may be imposed.