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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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§ 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.]
§ 12. Whether all his far-fetcht 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 pitcht Battels he has fought, and most commonly in the dark, when he was hardly able to discover friend from foe.]
Answ. It's too true, that being all written for Peace, the Enemies of Peace have fought against them. Nimis diu habitavit, anima mea inter osores pacis. But pro captu Lectoris, &c. All men take not the words of such as he for Oracles. How much I have written and done for Peace, let others read and judge. I long laboured and begged for Peace in vain with such as he defendeth. And it's admirable if this pitiless Enemy of Sects and Errors can be for all the Sects and Errors that I have written against. Have I in the dark taken for foes by Error the Atheists, the Infidels, the Sadducees, the Hobbists, the Quakers, the Ranters, the Papists, the Socinians, the Libertines called Antinomians, the Anabaptists, the Separatists, and Sects as Sects? Be of good comfort all: These Prelatists that accuse us for too dark and sharp Writings against you, seem to tell you that they will more hate persecuting or distressing you; Yes when they agree with themselves.
Answ. It's too true, that being all written for Peace, the Enemies of Peace have fought against them. Nimis diu habitavit, anima mea inter osores pacis. But pro captu Lectoris, &c. All men take not the words of such as he for Oracles. How much I have written and done for Peace, let others read and judge. I long laboured and begg'd for Peace in vain with such as he defendeth. And it's admirable if this pittiless Enemy of Sects and Errours can be for all the Sects and Errours that I have written against. Have I in the dark taken for foes by Errour the Atheists, the Infidels, the Sadduces, the Hobbists, the Quakers, the Ranters, the Papists, the Socinians, the Libertines called Antinomians, the Anabaptists, the Separatists, and Sects as Sects? Be of good comfort all: These Prelatists that accuse us for too dark and sharp Writings against you, seem to tell you that they will more hate persecuting or distressing you; Yes when they agree with themselves.