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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. 1. It's necessary to tell that truth which blasteth the Reputation of such sin as was growing up towards Papacy▪ Ans. 2. Then Christ was unchristian to tell the Jews of their very Fathers murders of the Prophets, while they disclaimed it, and built their Sepulchres, Mat. 23. And then it was unchristian in ⟨p. 155⟩the Holy Ghost, to blast the memory of Adam, Noah, Lot, David Solomon, Peter, yea or Manasseh, with sins repented of. 3. History must speak truth about things repented of; or else it will but deceive the world. 4. The Honour of God, and Goodness, and Truth, must be preferred before our own Honour. Repentance, if true, will most freely confess a mans own sin, and most fully shame it.
Answ. 1. It's necessary to tell that truth which blasteth the Reputation of such sin as was growing up towards Papacy▪ Ans. 2. Then Christ was unchristian to tell the Jews of their very Fathers murders of the Prophets, while they disclaimed it, and built their Sepulchres, Mat. 23. And then it was unchristian in ⟨p. 155⟩the Holy Ghost, to blast the memory of Adam, Noe, Lot, David Solomon, Peter, yea or Manasseh, with sins repented of. 3. History must speak truth about things repented of; or else it will but deceive the world. 4. The Honour of God, and Goodness, and Truth, must be preferred before our own Honour. Repentance, if true, will most freely confess a mans own sin, and most fully shame it.
§ 12. Whether all his far-fetched Conjectures that Cyril repented, be true or no, is nothing to me. I will hope he did, though I never saw it proved: The very last Sentence of Death might do it. His retortion is, [I know no man deeper engaged in the Contentions of the Church (than I) The writing of his Eighty Books being but like so many pitched Battles he has fought, and most commonly in the dark, when he was hardly able to discover friend from foe.]