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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.
Priscillianus, familia nobilis, praedives opibus, acer, inquies, facundus, multa lectione eruditus, disserendi & disputandi promptissimus—vigilare multum, famem & sitim far poterat, habendi minime cupidus, utendi parcissimus (Was it a crime to say so much good of him?) But proud of his Learning, set up a Heresy, and two Bishops Instantius and Salvianus joined with him, and made him a Bishop—At Caesar Augusta one Synod was gathered against him. The Story I before recited. Next a Synod at Bordeaux trieth them. Saith Sulpitius [Ac mea ⟨p. 140⟩quidem sententia est, mihi tam reos quam accusatores displicere. Certe Ithacium nihil pensi, nihil sancti habuisse definio: suit enim audax, loquax, impudens, sumptuosus, ventri & gulae plurimum impertiens. Hic stultitiae eo usque processerat ut omnes etiam sanctos viros, quibus aut studium erat lectionis, aut propositum erat certare jejuniis, tanquam Priscilliani socios aut discipulos in crimen arcesseret. Ausus etiam miser est ea tempestate Martino Episcopo—palam objectare haeresis infamiam. Imperator per Magnum & Ru•um Episcopos depravatus à mitioribus consiliis deflexus▪—So he tells how many were put to death—Caeterum Priscilliano occiso, non solum non repressa est haeresis—sed confirmata, latius propagata est: Namque sectatores ejus qui eum prius ut sanctum honoraverant, postea ut Martyrem colere c•p• runt. Ac inter nostros perpetuum discordiarum bellum exarserat, quod jam per quind••im annos •oedis dissensionibus agitatum, nullo modo sopiri poterat. Et nunc cum maxime discordiis Episcoporum turbari aut misceri omnia ce•nerentur, cunctaque per eos odio aut gratia, metu, inconstantia, invidia, faction, libidine, avaritia, arrogantia, somno, desidia, essent depravata: Postremo plures adversus paucos been consulentes, insan•s consiliis & pertinacibus studiis certarent: Inter haec Plebs Dei, & Optimus quisque probro atque ludibrio habebatur.] So ends Sulpitius History.
Priscillianus, familia nobilis, praedives opibus, acer, inquies, facundus, multa lectione eruditus, disserendi & disputandi promptissimus—vigilare multum, famem & sitim ferre poterat, habendi minime cupidus, utendi parcissimus (Was it a crime to say so much good of him?) But proud of his Learning, set up a Heresie, and two Bishops Instantius and Salvianus ioyned with him, and made him a Bishop—At Caesar Augusta one Synod was gathered against him. The Story I before recited. Next a Synod at Burdeaux tryeth them. Saith Sulpitius [Ac mea