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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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Q. 3. If any Presbyter broke from his Bishop to set up a Heresy, was it not one that sought to be a Bishop? Or did they not make presently him or some other their Bishop and Head? Heresy or Popery had made but small progress, had it not been for Bishops.
Q. 3. If any Presbyter broke from his Bishop to set up a Heresie, was it not one that sought to be a Bishop? Or did they not make presently him or some other their Bishop and Head? Heresie or Popery had made but small progress, had it not been for Bishops.
§ 15. When I commend the Novatians Canon, which allowed all men Liberty for the Time of Easter, as better than burning men as Heretics, he takes it for an Immoderate Transport that I say▪ [as loud as I can speak, If all the Proud, Ambitious, Hereticating part of the Bishops had been of this mind, O what sin, what scandal, and what shame, what cruelties, confusions and miseries had the Christian world escaped?] That is, had they left such Indifferent things as Indifferent.
§ 15. When I commend the Novatians Canon, which allowed all men Liberty for the Time of Easter, as better than burning men as Hereticks, he takes it for an Immoderate Transport that I say▪ [as loud as I can speak, If all the Proud, Ambitious, Hereticating part of the Bishops had been of this mind, O what sin, what scandal, and what shame, what cruelties, confusions and miseries had the Christian world escaped?] That is, had they left such Indifferent things as Indifferent.
And is this against Moderation? I would such Zeal of God's House had more eaten me up: Dare you deny but that this course would have saved the Lives of all those thousands of Albigenses, Waldenses, and Bohemians that the Papists killed: And the death and torment of multitudes by the Inquisition? And the burning of our Smithfield Martyrs: And it's like most of the Wars between the Old Popes and Emperors about Investitures? And the blood of many thousand more. And it would have saved more Nations than ours from the Tearing and Division of Churches by the Ejecting and Silencing of hundreds or thousands of their Pastors, as the case of the Germane Interim, and other