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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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IV. There is yet a more Famous Historian, than any of these, though unnamed; who pretending to militate after Dr. Stilling fleet, as in a 2d. Part against Separation, takes on him to give you the History of my Life. Partly making it my Reproach, that when I grew to Understanding, I remembered how many Drunken or Ignorant Readers had been my Teachers: Partly raking up retracted and obliterated Passages of Old Writings; while at once they persuade me to Reviews and Retractions: Partly heaping up abundance of down right Falsehoods▪ Partly clipping Sentences, and leaving out ⟨p. 8⟩the part that should make them understood, and turning true Words, by perversion, into Falsehoods: And partly by mixing this known Truth, [That I was on the Parliaments side, and openly declared it.]
IV. There is yet a more Famous Historian, than any of these, though unnamed; who pretending to militate after Dr. Stilling fleet, as in a 2d. Part against Separation, takes on him to give you the History of my Life. Partly making it my Reproach, that when I grew to Understanding, I remembred how many Drunken or Ignorant Readers had been my Teachers: Partly raking up retracted and obliterated Passages of Old Writings; while at once they perswade me to Reviews and Retractions: Partly heaping up abundance of down right Falshoods▪ Partly clipping Sentences, and leaving out ⟨p. 8⟩the part that should make them understood, and turning true Words, by perversion, into Falshoods: And partly by mixing this known Truth, [That I was on the Parliaments side, and openly declared it.]
But when at the new Model, I saw that they changed their Cause, I changed my Practice, & was from the Day that I went into the Army, a resolved Opposer of all that they did, to the Changing of the Government, & their Usurpation; & was sent among them to that end; which was immediately after Naseby Fight: And continued openly disowning the Usurpation, and the Means that set it up. And though I was Preaching and Writing against the said Usurpers, when an Army was Fighting for them, against the King, and the King knew how to forgive and Honour them, that did so much to his Restoration; yet are the Accusers so far from forgiving those that never personally hurt a Man, that they forbear not multiplying false Accusations; yea, and accusing those Ministers, and private Men that never had to do with Wars: Yea, the same Men that then wrote against me for the Changers and Usurpers, have since been the fierce Accusers of us, that opposed them.