A27058:943
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ans. If it be ill done, why condemn you your self by defending those that did the like? If it was well done in Bishops Councils, why not in them? 2. But what's this to me, if it be not me that he means? If it be, 1. If you will read but the last part of my Cathol. Theolog. judge of the mans front. 2. It is none but those that are for a humane Sovereignty over all the Church on Earth that we judge Papists: And if you judge them not such, we will thank you to tell us what a Papist is in your own sense.
Ans. If it be ill done, why condemn you your self by defending those that did the like? If it was well done in Bishops Councils, why not in them? 2. But what's this to me, if it be not me that he means? If it be, 1. If you will read but the last part of my Cathol. Theolog. judge of the mans front. 2. It is none but those that are for a humane Soveraignty over all the Church on Earth that we judge Papists: And if you judge them not such, we will thank you to tell us what a Papist is in your own sense.
§ 18. His saying p. 225. that [John Comes that gives a sad account of the Council is much to be suspected, &c. doth but tell us that he would have your belief of History guided by the Interest of his Cause.
§ 19. As to his scorn against my translating the words [the Scripture and Sacred] which mean that imperial Scripture, I did think a literal Translation could not have been judged a misunderstanding or mistranslation: Why may they not be called in English what they are called in Greek? And he had a strong imagination if he thought that Hammers Translation of Eusebius, &c. afforded me such materials as these.
§ 19. As to his scorn against my translating the words [the Scripture and Sacred] which mean that imperial Scripture, I did think a litteral Translation could not have been judged a misunderstanding or mistranslation: Why may they not be called in English what they are called in Greek? And he had a strong imagination if he thought that Haumers Translation of Eusebius, &c. afforded me such materials as these.