A27058:945
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.
§ 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.
§ 20. His conclusion of some that scorn to preach by the Licence of the Government I before mentioned. The Truth and ⟨p. 162⟩ministerial Honesty of it, is much like as if Thousands should petition the Bishop, that their sick families may have licensed Physicians, and he rejecteth all their Petitions, and prevaileth with the Parliament to do the like: At last the King pitieth them, and licenseth the Physicians, and the Bishop and his Clergy are offended, and get it revoked, and the Physicians practise at their peril without license: And our credible Historian should record it, that they scorned to practise as licensed by the Government, even while still they make all the Friends they can to the Clergy to be licensed, and are not able to prevail. But the ages that knew not them and us, that are to come, may possibly believe these men as they believe their Predecessors.
§ 20. His conclusion of some that scorn to preach by the Licence of the Government I before mentioned. The Truth and ⟨p. 162⟩ministerial Honesty of it, is much like as if Thousands should petition the Bishop, that their sick families may have licensed Physicians, and he rejecteth all their Petitions, and prevaileth with the Parliament to do the like: At last the King pittieth them, and licenseth the Physicians, and the Bishop and his Clergy are offended, and get it revoked, and the Physicians practise at their peril without license: And our credible Historian should record it, that they scorned to practise as licensed by the Government, even while still they make all the Friends they can to the Clergy to be licensed, and are not able to prevail. But the ages that knew not them and us, that are to come, may possibly believe these men as they believe their Predecessors.