A27058:879
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.
He saith, that the Impudent Mutinous Monks were not ashamed to tell all the world, that all that were against them were Anthropophites.
Answ. It was other Monks that I here talk not of, that he means: It was these Monks that were Anthropomorphites themselves, and would have killed Theophilus for not being so, till he said to them, Methinks I see your faces as the Face of God: And the name of the Face of God did quiet them. Hierom was a Party against Chrysostom; it was for not passing that Sentence on Origen, that Epiphanius would by masterly Usurpation have imposed on him, that Chrysostom was by him accused.
§ 23. Could any Sobriety excuse that man Epiphanius, that would come to the Imperial City, and there purposely intrude into the Cathedral of one of the best Bishops in the world, for Parts and Piety, and there play the Bishop over an A. Bishop in his own Church, and seek to set all the Auditory in a flame at the time of Public Worship, and require him to say that of ⟨p. 149⟩Origen, which he there without any Authority imposed on him? I know not what is Pride, Usurpation, Turbulency, if not Malignity, if this be not.
§ 23. Could any Sobriety excuse that man Epiphanius, that would come to the Imperial City, and there purposely intrude into the Cathedral of one of the best Bishops in the world, for Parts and Piety, and there play the Bishop over an A. Bishop in his own Church, and seek to set all the Auditory in a flame at the time of Publick Worship, and require him to say that of ⟨p. 149⟩Origen, which he there without any Authority imposed on him? I know not what is Pride, Usurpation, Turbulency, if not Malignity, if this be not.