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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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§ 5. Socrates, saith he, makes it part of his charge that he took on him the Government of temporal Affairs. This was not the Usurpation of the Bishop, but the Indulgence of the Emperor: And he shows the Churches need of it.
§ 5. Socrates, saith he, makes it part of his charge that he took on him the Government of temporal Affairs. This was not the Usurpation of the Bishop, but the Indulgence of the Emperour: And he shews the Churches need of it.
Answ. That which he is charged with is, that he was the first Bishop that himself used the Sword. And 1. Do you think that so great a Patriarchate & Diocese would not find a conscionable ⟨p. 153⟩Pastor work enough, without joining with it the Magistrates Office? 2. Was not the Church greatly changed even so early from what it was a little before in the days of Martin and Sulpitius, when even Ithacius durst not own being so much as a seeker to the Magistrate to draw the Sword against gross Heretics; and the best Bishops denied Communion with them that sought it: And now a Bishop himself becomes the striker not of gross Heretics, but such as peaceable Bishops bore with.
Answ. That which he is charged with is, that he was the first Bishop that himself used the Sword. And 1. Do you think that so great a Patriarchate & Diocess would not find a conscionable ⟨p. 153⟩Pastor work enough, without joyning with it the Magistrates Office? 2. Was not the Church greatly changed even so early from what it was a little before in the daies of Martin and Sulpitius, when even Ithacius durst not own being so much as a seeker to the Magistrate to draw the Sword against gross Hereticks; and the best Bishops denied Communion with them that sought it: And now a Bishop himself becomes the striker not of gross Hereticks, but such as peaceable Bishops bore with.