A27058:904
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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§ 7. As to all the rest of the History about Cyril's Executions, and the wounding of Orestes the Governor, I leave it between the Credit of Mr. M. and Socrates.: And he very much suspects the Story of Cyril's making a Martyr of him that was executed for it: I leave all to the Reader's Judgment. I think I may transcribe Socrates without slandering Cyril.
§ 7. As to all the rest of the History about Cyril's Executions, and the wounding of Orestes the Governour, I leave it between the Credit of Mr. M. and Socrates.: And he very much suspects the Story of Cyril's making a Martyr of him that was executed for it: I leave all to the Reader's Judgment. I think I may transcribe Socrates without slandering Cyril.
Here his spleen rising, saith [There are men in the world that honour such as Martyrs for murdering a King.]
Answ. You may smell what he insinuates: I think he will not say, that he ever did more against them than those that they call Presbyterians have done. We Wrote and Preached against them when he did not. I know not the Presbyterian living to my remembrance, that was not against the Murder of the King, and Prin. whom the Bishops had cropped and stigmatized for being against them, as an Erastian, was the hottest in the Parliament, for the Execution of the King's Judges: But I knew divers Conformists that have written or spoken to justify or excuse that Fact.
Answ. You may smell what he insinuates: I think he will not say, that he ever did more against them than those that they call Presbyterians have done. We Wrote and Preacht against them when he did not. I know not the Presbyterian living to my remembrance, that was not against the Murder of the King, and Prin. whom the Bishops had cropt and stigmatized for being against them, as an Erastian, was the hottest in the Parliament, for the Execution of the King's Judges: But I knew divers Conformists that have written or spoken to justifie or excuse that Fact.