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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
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.
CHAP. XXI. Of the first Council of Ephesus, &c. His Cap. 5.
§ 1. OUR Accuser in his Fifth Chapter passeth by the just Praises which I give to Peaceable Bishops, as crossing his Slander that I dispraise all, or such as well as the unpeaceable, whose Justification it is that he undertaketh.
§ 2. He begins with an Accusation, that [to prejudice the Reader against Cyril's Council, I give the worst account of him that I could patch up out of all the Libels and Accusations of his Enemies.]
Answ. If by Prejudice be meant Informing him of History; and by Worst is meant Impartial Recitation of what History saith; and by Patching up be meant such Reciting; and by Enemies be meant the best and most credible Historians that have written of it, then this is true: Else it is the work of that Undertaker that is engaged to call Evil Good, and Darkness Light, and preferreth speaking good of bad actions, before speaking truly.
Answ. If by Prejudice be meant Informing him of H•story; and by Worst is meant Impartial Recitation of what History saith; and by Patching up be meant such Reciting; and by Enemies be meant the best and most credible Historians that have written of it, then this is true: Else it is the work of that Undertaker that is engaged to call Evil Good, and Darkness Light, and preserreth speaking good of bad actions, before speaking truly.