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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.
And, if any man of consideration think I have not proved against Mr. Dodwell, that Bishops Government is not like a King's, who may make what Officers under him he please, but depends more as a Physician's or School-master's on Personal Ability, I will now add but this Question to him [Why is it that Monarchy may be hereditary, and a Child or Infant may be King] but an Infant may not be Bishop, nor any one not qualified with Essential Ability? I have at large told you how sharply Baronius and Binnius condemn that odious Nullity of making a Child (by his Father's Power) A. Bishop of Rhemes.
If I heard twenty men say and swear that one man is sufficient to be the only Master of many hundred Schools, or Physician to many hundred Hospitals, or that one Carpenter or Mason may alone build and rear all the Houses in the City after the Fire, or one man be the sole Master of an hundred thousand Families; what can I say to him, but that he never tried or knows the work?
If I heard twenty men say and swear that one man is sufficient to be the only Master of many hundred Schools, or Physician to many hundred Hospitals, or that one Carpenter or Mason may alone build and rear all the Houses in the City after the Fire, or one man be the sole Master of an hundred thousand Families; what can I say to him, but that he never tryed or knows the work?
§ 18. When I note that the Donatists took themselves for the Catholics, and the Adversaries for Schismatics, because they were the greater number, he very honestly saith, that Multitude may render a Sect formidable, but it's no Argument of Right.
§ 18. When I note that the Donatists took themselves for the Catholicks, and the Adversaries for Schismaticks, because they were the greater number, he very honestly saith, that Multitude may render a Sect formidable, but it's no Argument of Right.