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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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§ 5. Though he say [he is weary, yet he must not pass by, that when I mention Socrates his most high praise of Theodosius (living under him) and the miracles which he saith God wrought for him; I say, if this be true, God owned his Moderation by Miracles, notwithstanding his favouring the Eutychians, more than he did any ways of violence.] And here the man hath found me in Contradiction, and saith, [Those miracles could not countenance the Eutychian cause that was after. 2. That the Eutychians were the most violent men. Such Contradictions he and L'Estrange find in my Writings.
Ans. But, 1. Is it true that I said those miracles countenanced the Eutychian Cause? I said only that God owned the Moderation (not the Eutychian Opinion) of a man called an Eutychian by the Hereticators, notwithstanding his favouring the Eutychians. He was a man that studied the reconciliation of the contending Bishops, and was moderate towards all, but persuaded that the major Vote of the Bishops being against Nestorius, and for Cyril, and Dioscorus, it tended to peace to take that side. His Moderation was the same before the stir with Eutyches as after. I only said that God by miracles owned that mans moderation, who is charged with after favouring the Eutychians.
2. And what I spake of Moderation opposite to violence, in way of suppressing Heretics, he feigneth me to speak it as opposite to violence in the Persons suppressed: I spake of Violence in the Prince as agent, and he feigneth me to speak of Violence in the parties that he dealt with. He may find matter at this rate ⟨p. 170⟩to write greater Volumes against any man. I read of none of the Heresies then contended about, Nestorian or Eutychian, but the accused Bishops were violent for them: But though they were all violent, yet if the question were, whether the Emperor should use violence or Moderation against them, I may say, that God owneth more the way of Moderation.