A27058:988
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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Ans. 5. Surely Modesty requireth me to think that the Emperor was much more capable of knowing the truth of the acts of his own Subjects, when his Servants present gave him an account of them, than I am 1200 Years after: And so good a man would not willingly lye.
Ans. 5. Surely Modesty requireth me to think that the Emperour was much more capable of knowing the truth of the acts of his own Subjects, when his Servants present gave him an account of them, than I am 1200 Years after: And so good a man would not willingly lye.
Ans. 6. Therefore my own Conclusion is, God is true and all men are Liars, that is, untrusty: and that Eudocia and his Courtiers had much power with him for Dioscorus against Flavian, as Pulcheria had against Nestorius; but that it was the Peace and Concord of the Bishops which he most studied, and thought that it lay in going with the major part. And I believe things were bad on both sides, and worse than the Emperor thought with the Eutychian Bishops, and worse than others say with their Adversaries; and that the Emperor, though fallible, was as Socrates saith, beyond all the Clergy.
Ans. 6. Therefore my own Conclusion is, God is true and all men are Lyars, that is, untrusty: and that Eudocia and his Courtiers had much power with him for Dioscorus against Flavian, as Pulcheria had against Nestorius; but that it was the Peace and Concord of the Bishops which he most studied, and thought that it lay in going with the major part. And I believe things were bad on both sides, and worse than the Emperour thought with the Eutychian Bishops, and worse than others say with their Adversaries; and that the Emperour, though fallible, was as Socrates saith, beyond all the Clergie.
But here I see that I am blamed for not railing against a meek and pious Emperor, and as a Railer for lamenting the sins of the Clergy.