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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

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episcopus_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la ut_fw-la patriarcha_fw-la fuerat_fw-la praefectus_fw-la p._n 178._o quam_fw-la horribilia_fw-la certamina_fw-la &_o contentiones_fw-la moverunt_fw-la hi_o duo_fw-la episcopi_fw-la de_fw-la primatu_fw-la ut_fw-la facile_fw-la judicari_fw-la posset_n spiritum_fw-la sanctum_fw-la non_fw-la esse_fw-la authorem_fw-la huius_fw-la instituti_fw-la alia_fw-la habet_fw-la episcopus_fw-la long_o potiora_fw-la quae_fw-la agate_n quam_fw-la sunt_fw-la hi_o pueriles_fw-la &_o inepti_fw-la ludi_fw-la praemonemur_fw-la quod_fw-la concilia_fw-la prorsus_fw-la nihil_fw-la novi_fw-la debent_fw-la comminisci_fw-la vel_fw-la tradere_fw-la de_fw-fr council_n ephes_n p._n 180_o 181._o excesserant_fw-la jam_fw-la è_fw-la vivis_fw-la sancti_fw-la patres_fw-la &_o illi_fw-la optimi_fw-la episcopi_fw-la s._n ambrose_n s._n martinus_n s._n hieronymus_n s._n augustinus_n qui_fw-la eo_fw-la ipso_fw-la anno_fw-la quo_fw-la synodus_fw-la coacta_fw-la est_fw-la mortuus_fw-la est_fw-la 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