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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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Answ. 2. Through God's mercy it is much better than such Historians would make men believe. Dr. Heylin tells us what work the Arminian Controversy made between Bishop Laud's Party, and the Parliaments and Abbots Party, as if it had set us all by the Ears. It is not so now: One of your Brethren lately tells us, how that Controversy is quieted: What Contention do you hear of among the Nonconformists about it? No man hath so much as writ a line, that I know of, against my Conciliation in my Cathol. Theology. How little stir doth the Antinomian Controversy make? If one or two men do vent their displeasure about any of these, we neglect it, and it is presently forgotten. I hear sometime that called Arminianism hotly preached in the Parish Churches: It provoketh not me, and I take no ⟨p. 169⟩notice of it. I (rarely) hear some preach against the Arminians: I take no notice of it, and there it dies: Whereas if one should write Challenges and Accusations to the Preachers, we might make work enough for all the Country. I never yet met with many such, but if you make not a War of it, and engage them by opposition, they grow weary themselves, and grow into unobserved neglect or contempt. Most of the spreading Errors and Contentions among us have come by the Bellows of too strong or imprudent Opposition or Disputes. I hear of no considerable Doctrinal Strivings among all the Nonconformists now in England. One Ignorant Uncalled Fellow is lately crept into London, and wrote proud Challenges for Antinomianism, and none answered him, and he is contemned, and hath no Second that I hear of.
Answ. 2. Through God's mercy it is much better than such Historians would make men believe. Dr. Heylin tells us what work the Arminian Controversie made between Bishop Laud's Party, and the Parliaments and Abbots Party, as if it had set us all by the Ears. It is not so now: One of your Brethren lately tells us, how that Controversie is quieted: What Contention do you hear of among the Nonconformists about it? No man hath so much as writ a line, that I know of, against my Conciliation in my Cathol. Theology. How little stir doth the Antinomian Controversie make? If one or two men do vent their displeasure about any of these, we neglect it, and it is presently forgotten. I hear sometime that called Arminianism hotly preached in the Parish Churches: It provoketh not me, and I take no ⟨p. 169⟩notice of it. I (rarely) hear some preach against the Arminians: I take no notice of it, and there it dies: Whereas if one should write Challenges and Accusations to the Preachers, we might make work enough for all the Country. I never yet met with many such, but if you make not a War of it, and engage them by opposition, they grow weary themselves, and grow into unobserv'd neglect or contempt. Most of the spreading Errours and Contentions among us have come by the Bellows of too strong or imprudent Opposition or Disputes. I hear of no considerable Doctrinal Strivings among all the Nonconformists now in England. One Ignorant Uncalled Fellow is lately crept into London, and wrote proud Challenges for Antinomianism, and none answered him, and he is contemned, and hath no Second that I hear of.