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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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§ 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.
§ 21. He comes to St. Theophilus's Case, of which we spake ⟨p. 148⟩before. The Monks that reported evil of him, were, it may be, saith he, downright Knaves, The Reviling is blameless when applied to such. Doubtless they were ignorant rash Zealots: But one that reads what the Egyptian Monks were in Anthony's days, and after, and what Miracles and Holiness, Sulpitius Severus reporteth of them, and why Basil retired into his Monastery, &c. may conjecture that they had much less worldliness than the Bishops, and not greater faults.
§ 21. He comes to St. Theophilus's Case, of which we spake ⟨p. 148⟩before. The Monks that reported evil of him, were, it may be, saith he, downright Knaves, The Reviling is blameless when applied to such. Doubtless they were ignorant rash Zealots: But one that reads what the Egyptian Monks were in Anthony's daies, and after, and what Miracles and Holiness, Sulpitius Severus reporteth of them, and why Basil retired into his Monastery, &c. may conjecture that they had much less worldliness than the Bishops, and not greater faults.