A27058:923
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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4. Who and how many were ever either tormented or put to death for Heresy, from 1641 till 1660: I remember not one, save that James Nayler was imprisoned and whipped, and had his Tongue bored for blasphemous Personating Christ, and that not by the Presbyterians.
4. Who and how many were ever either tormented or put to death for Heresie, from 1641 till 1660: I remember not one, save that James Nayler was imprisoned and whipt, and had his Tongue bored for blasphemous Personating Christ, and that not by the Presbyterians.
5. Why are they so ordinarily reproached by the Prelatists for tolerating all Sects here in England?
6. What if all this had been true? What is it to me or any of my mind? I never had a hand in persecuting one man, to my remembrance. How few can you name of all the Nonconformists now in England, that had any hand in the Severities you ⟨p. 157⟩mention? I know not four in England, that I remember. And what's this to us any more than to you?