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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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The sum and truth is, to judge no one but my self, I must be blind by ignorance or partiality if I be not past doubt, 1. That unskilful explication was their difference. 2. That Cyril's words were Eutychian. 3. That Nestorius words were orthodox in the main, but not sufficiently yielding to a tolerable phrase. 4. That they both meant the same thing. 5. That all their war was managed, 1. For want of distinguishing fully the Abstract [Deitatem] and the Concrete [Deum] 2. For want of distinguishing [Qui Deus] from [Qua Deus] and a strict formal expression from a more lax that's tolerable. And 3. For want of distinguishing [division] from [distinction] of natures. 4. For want of explaining the various sorts and senses of [Unity] and [Plurality.] I cannot but know this to be true, though Mr. M. scorn me for it.
The sum and truth is, to judge no one but my self, I must be blind by ignorance or partiality if I be not past doubt, 1. That unskilful explication was their difference. 2. That Cyrils words were Eutychian. 3. That Nestorius words were orthodox in the main, but not sufficiently yielding to a tolerable phrase. 4. That they both meant the same thing. 5. That all their war was managed, 1. For want of distinguishing fully the Abstract [Deitatem] and the Concrete [Deum] 2. For want of distinguishing [Qui Deus] from [Qua Deus] and a strict formal expression from a more laxe that's tolerable. And 3. For want of distinguishing [division] from [distinction] of natures. 4. For want of explaining the various sorts and senses of [Unity] and [Plurality.] I cannot but know this to be true, though Mr. M. scorn me for it.
What [I that understand not the language they wrote in to pretend to know better than the Council?] Ans. 1. So say the Papists: what? will you pretend to know more than the Church and Councils? If it be implicit faith that they are bringing us to, let them tell us which Councils we must so believe when they condemn each other? 2. I thought I could make shift to understand their language, though I be no critic in it: But if he know ⟨p. 161⟩me better, I strive not for the reputation of Learning; not only Baronius and Binnius, and all the rest that he nameth that had no skill in Greek, but most of the Schoolmen, seem to me without it, far more Learned than he. I can tell him of Lads whose Learning I admire not, that shall vie with him in Languages Oriental and Occidental, and give him odds; And when he scorns Derodons distinctions, telling us it's making two bad Groats by slitting a Sixpence, &c. I leave him to glory in his Confusion: But I suspect the Fox that speaks against Tails is like enough to want one himself.