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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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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.
§ 8. As for the Murder of Hypatia, I leave him to his scuffle with Socrates and Damascius, in which I interess not my self.
§ 9. I thank Pope Innocent Mr. M. durst not deny Cyril's ⟨p. 154⟩faults, in his Enmity to the memory of Chrysostom; and yet he calls my reciting the matter of Fact a reproach. He is constrained to confess [That the Quarrel was it seems hereditary to him (so is Original Sin) and he did prosecute it beyond all equity or decency against the memory of a dead man: This was a fault, and and he that is without any, or without any particular animosity, specially if he be in any eminent place, let him •ast the first stone.]