A27058:884
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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Alas! it's too true that Theophilus was not alone: A Council of Bishops were the Persecutors. And it's hard to think that they loved Chrysostom as themselves. When the forementioned Council at Constantinople had turned out Nazianzen, even the great magnifiers of General Councils, Baronius and Binnius, thus reproach them, that they drove away a holy excellent man, that a man was set up in his stead that was no Christian; that it was the Episcopi Nundinarii that did it, the Oriental Bishops first leaving them, and going away with Gregory. And if the Major Vote of that General Council were Episcopi Nundinarii, what Chrysostom's Persecutors were may be conjectured. Do not these Papists here say worse of them than I do?
Alas! it's too true that Theophilus was not alone: A Council of Bishops were the Persecutors. And it's hard to think that they loved Chrysostom as themselves. When the forementioned Council at Constantinople had turned out Nazianzen, even the great magnifiers of General Councils, Baronius and Binnius, thus reproach them, that they drove away a holy excellent man, that a man was set up in his stead that was no Christian; that it was the Episcopi Nundinarii that did it, the Oriental Bishops first leaving them, and going away with Gregory. And if the Major Vote of that General Council were Episcopi Nundinarii, what Ch•ysostom's Persecutors were may be conjectured. Do not these Papists here say worse of them than I do?
§ 24. Yet though he confess as much as is aforesaid, and bring but his Conjectures mixed with palpable omissions against the express words of Socrates and Sozomen, he hath the face to make up his failing with this Calumny [I have dwelt so long on this, not only to vindicate Theophilus, but to show once for all the manner of our Author's dealing with his Reader in his Church-History. Any scandalous Story, though it be as false and improbable as any in the Anni Mirabiles, or Whites Centuries of Scandalous Ministers, any Fiction that reflects with disgrace on Bishops and Councils is set down for authentic, no matter who delivers it, friend or foe.]
§ 24. Yet though he confess as much as is aforesaid, and bring but his Conjectures mixt with palpable omissions against the express words of Socrates and Sozomen, he hath the face to make up his failing with this Calumny [I have dwelt so long on this, not only to vindicate Theophilus, but to shew once for all the manner of our Author's dealing with his Reader in his Church-History. Any scandalous Story, though it be as false and improbable as any in the Anni Mirabiles, or Whites Centuries of Scandalous Ministers, any Fiction that reflects with disgrace on Bishops and Councils is set down for autntick, no matter who delivers it, friend or foe.]