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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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2. We find that this woeful fraction hath continued about one Thousand two Hundred and thirty Years.
2. We find that this woful fraction hath continued about one Thousand two Hundred and thirty Years.
3. We are put to enquire what was and is the cause; and we find that on both sides it is the Bishops and their Clergy that now continue it, and it was Patriarchs and their Bishops that at first caused it.
4. We enquire how they did it: And Mr. Morris confesseth that it began in a dispute between the two Patriarchs (whether the Virgin Mary was to be called The Mother of God, or rather The Mother of Jesus Christ who is God and Man: and that on this occasion Cyril charged Nestorius, as making Christ to be two Persons, and he himself said Christ incarnate had but one Nature, but had no more skill in speaking, than by one Nature to ⟨p. 163⟩mean one Person, (though Derodon labour to prove that he meant worse,) that Nestorius professed two Natures in one Person. And Mr. M. saith, Nestorius when he spake well meant ill, and Cyril when he spake ill meant well. And upon this a General Council itself is first divided about them, even to blows: and after by the importunity of Cyril's party, Nestorius is banished, and the Bishops divided, some for one, and some for another to this day. Another Council is called at Calcedon, and confirmeth the Condemnation, and the Nestorian Bishops condemn that Council, and for many Ages the Bishops were divided also about that, one part condemning it, and the other subscribing to it, and honouring it. Judge now what these Bishops have done to Christian Religion and the Church of Christ, and continue to do: And if you dare join with our Canoneers in making the guilt your own, by justifying such dismal work; the further you go, the more of it you have to justify, till your Souls have guilt and load enough.