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A27058	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 ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1438; ESTC R39511	217,503	278

Have not whole Kingdoms been forbidden all Gods Publick worship by such even France and England among the rest Is it railing to tell for what little things they not only Silenced men but burned and murdered many thousands Were they not proud ambitious Prelates that deposed and abused Lud. Pius and those that in Council decreed the digging all the dead Bishops out of their graves to be bur●t as Hereticks who were for the Emperours power of Investitures Do I rail if I say that Greg. 7. was Proud and ambitious when he threatened the Prince of Calaris with the loss of his dominions unless he made his Bishop shave his beard Do not Jewel and all Protestant writers say worse than this of Papist Bishops Is there any such thing as pride silencing burning c. If yea must it never be known reproved repented of and so forgiven to the penitent And if yea than how shall it be known without proper names By what name should I have called Silencing but its own and so of the rest Gods power over Conscience is marvellous that sin cannot endure its own name The next railing is the word Hereticating And how could I have known if he had not told me that this word is railing Did not the Bishops take it for a great service of God and is it railing to name it It 's true I used one word instead of a Sentence for brevity to signifie the Bishops culpable over doing in proclaiming men Hereticks He that doth not believe that they did not well nor do not to this day in Cutting off from the Church of Christ all those whole Countreys of Christians called Nestorians Jacobites Melchites and the Monothelites and many such I cannot save him from himself who will own all such sin and contract the guilt of it Hath not Bishop Epiphanius made us more Hereticks than he needed Hath not Bishop Philastrius made many more than the Devil himself made Lest this pass for railing once more I will name some of them 1. His 11th sort of Hereticks are those that kept Easter-day at a wrong time as our Brittains and Scots did 2. The Millenaries are the 12th such as many of the antient fathers and our Mr. Mede Dr. Twiss c. 3. The 27th Offered Bread and Cheese at the oblation 4. The 28th put New Wine in New Vessels in the Church 5. The 29th Put their fingers on their mouths for Silence 6. The 30th thought that all Prophets ended not with Christ 7. The 33d went without shooes 8. The Novatians are the 34th 9. The 41th thought the Epistle to the Hebrews was not written by Paul but by Barnabas or Clemens and the Epistle to Laodicea by Luke 10. The 42th are the Orthodox Miletians that Communicated with the Orthodox and some Arians too 11. The 46th doubted of the diversity of Heavens 12. The 47th being ignorant that there is another Common Earth invisible which is the Matrix of all things do think that there is no Earth but this one 13. The 48th thought that water was the common matter and was alwaies and not made with the Earth 14. The 49th Heresie denyed that the soul was made before the body and the body after joyned to it and believed that Gods making them Male and Female first was to be understood of the bodily Sexes Whereas saith he it was the Soul that was made Male and Female And the Soul was made the Sixth day and the body the 7th 15. The 50th Heresie thought that not only Grace but also the Soul itself was by God breathed into man 6. The 51st is Origens that thought our Souls were first celestical Intellects before incorporate as Mr. Glanvile and many now 17. The 52d thought that brutes had some reason as Mr. Chambre 18. The 54th thought that Earthquakes have a natural Cause 19. The 55th Heresie learned of Trismegistus to call the Stars by the names of Living Creatures as all Astronomers do 20. The 56th thought that there were not many languages before the confusion of Babel 21. The 57th Heresie thought that the name of a Tongue proceeded first of the Jews or of the Pagans 22. The 58th Heresie doubted of the years and time of Christ 23. The 59th thought as many Fathers that Angels begat Giants of women before the flood 24. The 61st was that Christians were after Jews and Pagans 25. The 62d Heresie saith that Pagans are born naturally but not Christians that is that the Soul and body of men are not daily Created by Christ but by Nature 26. The 63d saith that the number of years from the Creation was uncertain and unknown 27. The 64 thought that the names of the daies of the week Sunday Monday c. were made by God first and not by Pagans and were named from the Planets 28. The 66th was that Adam and Eve were blind till God opened their Eyes to see their nakedness 29. The 67th Heresie imputeth the Sins of Parents to their Children 30. The 68 Heresie was of some troubled about the Book called Deuteronomy 31. The 69 thought that those sanctified in the Womb wore yet conceived in sin 32. The 70th Heresie thought that the World had been first divided by the Greeks Egyptians and Persians 33. The 71 thought there was a former Flood under Deucalion and Pyrrha 34. The 72 saith that men are according to or under the 12 signs of the Zodiack not knowing that those 12 signs are divers Climates and habitable Regions of the Earth 35 The 74 Heresie is that Christ descended into Hell to offer Repentance there to sinners 36. The 75 doubted of the nature of the Soul thinking it was made of Fire c. as many Greek Fathers did 37. The 77 is of Gods hardening Pharaoh c. where he describeth the Dominicans 38. The 79 is that the Psalms were not all made by David and it denieth the equality of the Psalms as if they were not all written and placed in the order that the things were done 39. The 80 Heresie thought that Gods words to Cain Thou shalt rule over him were properly to be understood whereas the meaning was Thou shalt rule over thy own evil Thoughts that are in thy own free Will 40. The 81 Heresie did not well understand the reason of Gods Words to Cain giving him Life 41. The 82 Heresie thought that the Stars had their fixed place in Heaven and their course not understanding that the Stars are every night brought out of some secret place and set up for use and at morning return to their secret place again Angels being Presidents and Disposers of them that is as servants bring Candles into the room at night and take them out again 42. The 83 doubted as some Episcopal Commentators of the Book of Ca●ticles lest it had a carnal Sense 43. The 85 Heresie thought that the Soul of man was naturally G●ds Image ●efore Grace 44. The 87 Heresie thought that really four living Creatures mentioned in the P●●phe●s

on the other IV. The Council that called the Emperours and others Princes power of investing Bishops the Henrician Heresie and judg'd the Bishops that had been for it to be dig'd out of their graves and burnt V. The Subjecting and debasing of all Christian Princes making them but as the Body and the Moon and the Bishops to be as the soul and the sun Especially the General Lateran Council which decreed Transubstantiation and all to be Hereticks that denied it And oblige all temporal Lords to exterminate all such Hereticks on pain of Excommunication deposition damnation VI. The Councils of Constance and Basils that were for Reformation how falsly and cruelly they dealt with Hus and Jerome and rejected the four great requests of the Bohemians and fixed their pollutions VII The Councils of Florence and that of Trent which had more Learned men who yet more obstinately managed the Enmity to Reformation VIII The present State of the Universal Church throughout the World as it is divided into Papists Protestants Greeks Moscovites Georgians with the Circassians and Mengrelians Armenians Nestorians Jacobites Cophtis Abasines Maronites Melchites And what thoughts these have of one another And I would desire Mr. Morrice to tell us 1. Whether he believes not verily that all these Instances prove that the Bishops have been the chief cause and that by Ambition Pride and Worldliness 2. Whether it be not the Bishops that in the Roman and other Parties now are the greatest hinderers of Reformation and of Concord and it would not be soon done were it not through them 3. Where it is that he will stop in his Vindication of the Bishops and their Councils and go no further and by what cogent reason 4. Whether he thought he had well defended the Church-Tyranny which I accused 1. By vindicating the first Ages and others whom I praised and accused not 2. And by letting fall his Vindication save a few consequent quibbles at the fourth General Council which was in 451. And so seems to vindicate the Bishops and Councils but for the space of 150 years of the time that I mentioned their degeneration 5. Whether if the Bishops had been willing when they had the King's Commission to make necessary alteration or were but to this day willing to prefer things necessary before things hurtful or indifferent we might not live in happy and holy Love and Peace in England 6. Whether he can blame a man that believes in Christ for lamenting the doleful corruption and division of the Christian world and for enquiring of and lamenting the sinful causes 7. If that Church Prelacy which they justly call the best in all the world can endure no more Parish Discipline than we have nor can endure such a Ministry as are silenced by hundreds or thousands than whom no Nation on Earth abroad that I can hear of hath better can you blame us for suspecting that somewhat is amiss with them and more with others 8. I hope you will yet remember that I did not appear as an accuser of Prelacy or Conformity but as importuned by your selves to give the reasons why I dare not take your Covenant and Oath never to endeavour any alteration of your Church Government and that after seventeen years silence My prayers to God shall be my endeavour for these following Alterations 1. That the Primitive Discipline may be exercised in the Parish Churches as Bucer importuned the King and Bishops de Regno Dei c. 2. That to that end we may either have so many Bishops under the Diocesan as be capable to do it or the Presbyters enabled allowed and obliged to do it 3. And that we may not instead of it have only a distant Court of men that know not the Parishioners where a Lay Chancellour decreeth Excommunication and Absolution which the Parish Priest must publish though his conscience be against it 4. And that Diocesans may not silence faithful Ministers without such cause as Christ will allow nor set up ignorant bad ones and bind the Parishioners to hear and communicate with no other I am so far from precise expectations from Diocesans or from reviling them that I do constantly praise them as very good Bishops who do no harm or but a little and if they should never preach themselves so they will not hinder others 9. And as for my calling Things and Persons as they are I hope you will not say that it was out of Malice that Anastasius Platina Massonius Stella Sigibert Baronius Genebrard Binnius c. have recorded such horrid crimes of Popes and others also of Prelates And is it malice in me to transcribe their History I am of Dr. Henry Moore 's mind who saith Mystery of Iniq. p. 388. Hence it is plain that they are the truest friends to Christendom even to Rome it self that do not sooth them up in their sins by mitigating and hiding their soul miscarriages but deal apertly and plainly with them for their own safety that neither admit nor invent subterfuges to countenance or palliate their Idolatrous and superstitious practices but tell them plainly how much they are apostatized from the true Worship of God and Christ into Paganism and Idolatry Better are the rebukes of a faithful friend than the hired flatteries of a glozing mercenary I pray mark this well 10. I take two things to be the degenerating and corruption of Episcopacy 1. When they became so bad that they were not willing to do good according to their undertaken Office Bad men will do ill in any place 2. When they had put themselves into a state of incapacity that they could not do the Good undertaken were they never so willing 1. Since great Baits of Wealth and Domination have tempted the worst men to be the Seekers Bishops have rarely been good except under a Saint-like Prince or People that had the Choice nor are ever like to be And what work the Enemies of Holiness will make by abusing Christ's Name against himself is easie to know such will take the best men for the worst and call them all that 's naught that they may quiet their Consciences in destroying them 2. And since a Diocess of many hundred or score Parishes hath had but one Bishop for Discipline the work is become impossible to the best But when a few Bad men will mercinarily undertake Impossibilities and so Badness and Impossibility go together alas what hope but of a better world above Saith Luther de Concil Eccles p. 300. Sed quam sunt intenti hanc crassam asininam ●atuitatem Unus Episcopus nonnunquam habet tres Episcopatus vel Dioceses tamen vocatur Unius Uxoris maritus cum habet tantum unum Episcopatum tamen interdum habet centum ducentas quingentas Parochias aut etiam plures vocatur tamen Sponsus unius Ecclesiae Hi non sunt digami Tam insulsas ineptissimas naenias recipit mens humana it a permittente Deo cum a