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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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Very true; nor Secular Power neither. But what better Argument have the Papists, and many others that talk against Schism?
§ 19. He thinks the Donatists Bishops Churches were not so small as our Parishes. Answ. Not as some: But if, as I said before, Constantinople in the height of all it's Glory in Chrysostom's days, had but 100000 Christians, as many as three London▪ Parishes have, judge then what the Donatists had.
§ 19. He thinks the Donatists Bishops Churches were not so small as our Parishes. Answ. Not as some: But if, as I said before, Constantinople in the height of all it's Glory in Chrysostom's daies, had but 100000 Christians, as many as three London▪ Parishes have, judge then what the Donatists had.
§ 20. His double quarrel with Binnius and Baronius, let who will mind. What I gathered out of those and other Canons of the smallness of Churches then, I have elsewhere made good. His Reviling Accusations of Envy to their Wealth, deserveth no Answer.
§ 20. His double quarrel with Binnius and Baronius, let who will mind. What I gathered out of those and other Canons of the smalness of Churches then, I have elsewhere made good. His Reviling Accusations of Envy to their Wealth, deserveth no Answer.