A27058:962
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.
The Emperor, he saith, knew how to choose Bishops, (and yet his Summons was general to all to come,) and the President, if half be true that is said of him, (and if that be a doubt, how credible are your Historians?) was one of the most wicked, profligate Wretches in the World,] yet he was one of the Patriarchs, and all the Council Bishops, and till they met, were not thus accused. You see the man is a far greater railer than I even against Bishops: But it is but against those that are against his Interest and side.
The Emperour, he saith, knew how to choose Bishops, (and yet his Summons was general to all to come,) and the President, if half be true that is said of him, (and if that be a doubt, how credible are your Historians?) was one of the most wicked, profligate Wretches in the World,] yet he was one of the Patriarchs, and all the Council Bishops, and till they met, were not thus accused. You see the man is a far greater railer than I even against Bishops: But it is but against those that are against his Interest and side.
§ 6. He describes those Bishops as using violence, forgetting that it is it his Party trusteth to continually: just with the front as Baronius and Binnius, and many other Papists, justify Martin for being against putting Heretics to death, and condemn Ithacius, while their Kingdom is upheld by that which they condemn, and worse, even the burning of true Christians as Heretics, and it's Heretical with them to imitate Martin, just as ⟨p. 166⟩those Matth. 23. Your Fathers killed the Prophets, and you build their Sepulchres, and say if we had lived in the days of our Fathers, we would not, &c.
§ 6. He describes those Bishops as using violence, forgetting that it is it his Party trusteth to continually: just with the front as Baronius and Binnius, and many other Papists, justifie Martin for being against putting Hereticks to death, and condemn Ithacius, while their Kingdom is upheld by that which they condemn, and worse, even the burning of true Christians as Hereticks, and it's Heretical with them to imitate Martin, just as