A27058:996
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. I confess such are not so bad as the Clergy-men, that will sin for mere Preferment, and will write against, and revile, and call for Execution on those that will not do as they. But if Nonconformists after 19 Years Ejection and Reproach, and Sufferings by more than Threats, should at last surrender to heinous sin, can he think it would excuse their Compliance, when Christ saith, Luk. 14 33. He that forsaketh not all that he hath cannot be my Disciple? If he think Martyrdom a work of Supererogation, he is dangerously mistaken. And he that to day thinks Threatening and Danger an Excuse for his sin, may to morrow think Poverty, and the next day the desire of Preferment an excuse.
Ans. I confess such are not so bad as the Clergy-men, that will sin for meer Preferment, and will write against, and revile, and call for Execution on those that will not do as they. But if Nonconformists after 19 Years Ejection and Reproach, and Sufferings by more than Threats, should at last surrender to heinous sin, can he think it would excuse their Compliance, when Christ saith, Luk. 14 33. He that forsaketh not all that he hath cannot be my Disciple? If he think Martyrdom a work of Supererogation, he is dangerously mistaken. And he that to day thinks Threatning and Danger an Excuse for his sin, may to morrow think Poverty, and the next day the desire of Preferment an excuse.
§ 10. Dioscorus and the Eutychians holding close to the Council of Nice, as sufficient, as a Test of the Orthodox, to which nothing was to be added, in reciting this he hath found my Ignorance in translating [retractat] by [retract.] Is not the English word of the same sense with the Latin? If not, and I be ignorant in English too, what wrong is that to any Bishop?
§ 10. Dioscorus and the Eutychians holding close to the Council of Nice, as sufficient, as a Test of the Orthodox, to which nothing was to be added, in reciting this he hath found my Ignorance in translating [retractat] by [retract.] Is not the English word of the same sence with the Latine? If not, and I be ignorant in English too, what wrong is that to any Bishop?