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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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Whether, as he saith, our disease be a wantonness sed by concession, and we are most violent when we know not what we would have, those men are no credible Judges that for seventeen years would not endure us to speak out our Case; and when before we debated part of it, would not vouchsafe to answer us; and at last when we tell it them, do but accuse us with a sharper storm, instead of giving any thing that a man can call an Answer that ever knew the Case, e. g. to our Pleas for Peace, and my Treatise of Episcopacy.
§ 17. He confesseth that I praise the African Bishops as the best in the world, though it contradict his former charge. As to the Magnitude of Dioceses, when he hath answered my Treat. of Episcopacy, some body may be edified by him.
§ 17. He confesseth that I praise the African Bishops as the best in the world, though it contradict his former charge. As to the Magnitude of Diocesses, when he hath answered my Treat. of Episcopacy, some body may be edified by him.
I agree with him that Good men will do much Good in a great Diocese. But 1. Worldly Bishops are so far bad: And worldly Wealth and Honour will ever be most sought by the most worldly men: And usually he that seeks shall find—Ergo—And 2. A good man cannot do Impossibilities: The best cannot do the work of many hundred.
I agree with him that Good men will do much Good in a great Diocess. But 1. Worldly Bishops are so far bad: And worldly Wealth and Honour will ever be most sought by the most worldly men: And usually he that seeks shall find—Ergo—And 2. A good man cannot do Impossibilities: The best cannot do the work of many hundred.