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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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Ans. He saith this plainly of me afterward, to show the credibility of his History? Did he know it to be false? If so, there's no disputing with him. If not, why did he not cite my words. Yea he after transcribes the Epistle meant, where he saw there were no such words: But others had told that tale before him, and that was Enough: Even as one of his tribe hath written that I have written in my Holy Common-wealth, that any one Peer may judge the King. If these Episcopal Historians tell foreigners that we have all Cloven Feet and Horns, and go on four legs, yea and if some swear it, we have no remedy: They can prove our noses horns, and our hands Feet.
Ans. He saith this plainly of me afterward, to shew the credibility of his History? Did he know it to be false? If so, there's no disputing with him. If not, why did he not cite my words. Yea he after transcribes the Epistle meant, where he saw there were no such words: But others had told that tale before him, and that was Enough: Even as one of his tribe hath written that I have written in my Holy Common-wealth, that any one Peer may judge the King. If these Episcopal Historians tell forreigners that we have all Cloven Feet and Horns, and go on four legs, yea and if some swear it, we have no remedy: They can prove our noses horns, and our hands Feet.
I again tell them, If Martins Angel and Miracles be credible, woe to those Prelatists that are for ruining violence, and silences against men better than the Gnostics. If they be not true, let them not trust too much to the best Historians.
I again tell them, If Martins Angel and Miracles be credible, woe to those Prelatists that are for ruining violence, and silences against men better than the Gnosticks. If they be not true, let them not trust too much to the best Historians.