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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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But who could have disgraced him more, than he that will imply that the things mentioned of him are as true as what is said in White's Centuries of Scandalous Ministers, or the Anni Mirabiles. I know not all or most things in either of them. But he was a stranger in England that had not credible Testimony of divers of the things in the Anni Mirabiles. And Mr. White, the Chairman of that Parliament-Committee, was commonly reputed a grave and godly credible man; and if he lied, the whole Committee must concur in the Lie; and the Witnesses must all be false. I will not further meddle in so unpleasant a business, than to tell you, that all that I knew accused of Scandal, had Witnesses of it, that in the places where they lived were thought to make as much conscience of a Lie, as the best of their Neighbours: And whether such a mans scorn that was then in the shell, is in History a sufficient proof that Committees of Parliament, and Witnesses, were all Liars, I leave to consideration, I well know what School-masters and Curates I was bred under, and what the two Ministers were that were sequestered in the place where I after came: And all the Country can tell you. They constrained me to name them, and the Case in my Apology for our Preaching, and my Answer to Mr. Hinkley: It's yet the same Age: Any may enquire of them.
But who could have disgraced him more, than he that will imply that the things mentioned of him are as true as what is said in White's Centuries of Scandalous Ministers, or the Anni Mirabiles. I know not all or most things in either of them. But he was a stranger in England that had not credible Testimony of divers of the things in the Anni Mirabiles. And Mr. White, the Chairman of that Parliament-Committee, was commonly reputed a grave and godly credible man; and if he lied, the whole Committee must concur in the Lie; and the Witnesses must all be false. I will not further meddle in so unpleasant a business, than to tell you, that all that I knew accused of Scandal, had Witnesses of it, that in the places where they lived were thought to make as much conscience of a Lie, as the best of their Neighbours: And whether such a mans scorn that was then in the shell, is in History a sufficient proof that Committees of Parliament, and Witnesses, were all Lyars, I leave to consideration, I well know what School-masters and Curates I was bred under, and what the two Ministers were that were sequestred in the place where I after came: And all the Country can tell you. They constrained me to name them, and the Case in my Apology for our Preaching, and my Answer to Mr. Hinkley: It's yet the same Age: Any may enquire of them.