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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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Methinks I see Mr. M. here in the strait of the Pharisees, when put to answer whether John's Baptism was from Heaven, or of men. Fain he would make Martin and Sulpitius Puritans and Fanatics; but the Church hath made a Holy day for Martin, and dedicated multitudes of Temples to his Honour; and all men reverence Sulpitius and him. Yet he ventures to go as far as he durst p. 142. against them.
Methinks I see Mr. M. here in the strait of the Pharisees, when put to answer whether John's Baptism was from Heaven, or of men. Fain he would make Martin and Sulpitius Puritanes and Fanaticks; but the Church hath made a Holy day for Martin, and dedicated multitudes of Temples to his Honour; and all men reverence Sulpitius and him. Yet he ventures to go as far as he durst p. 142. against them.
§ 10. But here Mr. M. smarteth, and saith [This Instance could become none worse than Mr. B. who in a Letter to Dr. Hill confesses himself to have been a Man of Blood—]
Answ. A Man of Blood is your Libertine Phrase. If you would have published that secret Letter, you should 1. Have told the whole, and worded it truly; 2. And have professed your self a derider of Repentance, while you call for it. I lived in an Age ⟨p. 143⟩of War, and I was on the Parliaments side, and that was enough to prove that I had a hand in blood while I was on one side, though I never drew blood of any man my self (save once a Boy at School with boxing.)