The True History of Councils, Table of contents
The CONTENTS.
I. A Specimen of the Way by which this Generation confuteth their Adverſaries in ſeveral Inſtances.
II. In the General Part:
§ 1. Hard for young men to know what Teachers or Hiſtory to believe.
§ 7. Tempting Reaſons for Papacy.
§ 8. Evident againſt it.
§ 9. The Steps by which Biſhops aſcended to Papacy.
§ 15. The different Opinions of Popery in the Engliſh.
§ 18. The Caſe of Fact diſcerned, what Judgment I ſettled in about Church-Power.
§ 20. For what Mr. M. hath wrote with ſo much diſpleaſure againſt me.
§ 22. Inſtances of above an Hundred Councils, beſides particular Biſhops, all before An. 1050. of whom I appeal to the Conſciences of all ſober Men, whether they have not been the Tearers of the Church.
General Inſtances of the greater Schiſms ſince then by popiſh Bps.
Some Queſtions put to Mr. M. and ſome Reaſons to abate his diſpleaſure.
§ 22. Of a late Book of the Hiſtory of my Life, to prove me the worſt of men.
§ 24. Whether I be guilty of falſifying Hiſtory.
III. The particular Anſwer to Mr. M's Vindication.
Ch. 1. The Reaſon and Deſign of my Hiſtory of the Schiſms of Biſhops and Councils.
Ch. 2. Whether we ought to tell of the Biſhops and Councils Church-corrupting Ways.
Ch. 3. Of Mr. M's Induſtry to ſhew me to be unlearned.
Ch. 4. Whether I vainly name Hiſtorians which I never read.
Ch. 5. Of my uſe of Tranſlations, and following Binnius.
Ch. 6. His charge of my own miſtranſlations and miſtakes.
Ch. 7. His falſe Suppoſition that I am only for a Church of one Congregation.
Ch. 8. His falſe Suppoſition that I am againſt Dioceſanes, when it's only the ill ſpecies.
Ch. 9. And that I am a Independent, and yet plead for Presbyterians.
Ch. 10. His falſe Accuſation that I make the Biſhops the cauſe of all Hereſies and Schiſms.
Ch. 11. And that I mention all the Biſhops Faults and none of their Goodneſs.
Ch. 12. His Accuſation of Spite, Malice, and Railing examined, Dr. Burnet ſatisfied.
Ch. 13. His Suppoſition that I ſpeak againſt all Biſhops Councils.
Ch. 14. Some mens Credit about ancient Hiſtory, tried by their Hiſtory of this Age. Twenty Inſtances of the Hiſtory of our times. My own experience of it. Whether I hate compliance with Superiours, or to preach by Licence.
Ch. 15. Mr. M. Magiſterial authoriſing or rejecting what Hiſtorians he pleaſes. His Accuſation of Socrates and Sozomene, and valuing Valeſius, Simond, &c.
Ch. 16. His Obſervation on my Notes of credible and incredible Hiſtory. His Inſtances of my Railing particularly conſidered. Whether the word [Hereticating] be railing or cauſeleſs. An Inſtance of Fifty five of Bp. St. Philaſtrius's accuſed Hereſses, by which I deſire any ſober man to judge. Other Inſtances. Whether St. Theophilus, or Socrates and Sozomene were the Criminals. Even Pope Honorius and Vigilius hereticated for being wiſer than other Popes.
Ch. 17. Of his Cenſure of my Deſign and Church Principles: Whether I be guilty of expoſing Chriſtianity more than Julian & Lucian.
Ch. 18. Of his 2d Chap. Who is moſt againſt Diſcipline. Of Anathematiſing. Whether Novatus was a Biſhop or an ordaining Presbyter. Councils for rebaptiſing. His Self-contradictions. Some Queſtions to him. Whether the Dioceſane Party (as Mr. Dodwel) who nullifie our Sacraments, are Hereticks, if the Re-baptiſers were ſuch. The old qu. was not of Rebaptiſing Hereticks, but of ſuch as Hereticks had baptiſed. Of the Donatiſts and many Councils. Of our Liturgy's Rule to find Eaſter-day. What the Novatians held. Petavius and Albaſpineus Teſtimony of them. His quarrels about Epiphanius, the Arians, the Audians divers Synods. Antioch. Of the Circumcellians. Optatus of the Donatiſts as Brethren. His Excuſe of the Biſhops.
Ch. 19. Of the 1ſt General Council at C. P. Whether Biſhops followed Emperours. Their uſage of Greg. Nazianz. Of the Priſcillianiſts, the Biſhops, and Martin. Of my Letter to Dr. Hill. Of the Council at Capua▪ Jovinian, Eaſter, African Bps. Donatiſts. Theophilus. Aliars.
Ch. 20. His 5 Chap. Of the 1ſt Epheſ. Council. His reviling Socrates and Sozomene, as againſt Cyril. Cyrils Story. Of the Presbyterians Cruelty. Neſtorius; Caſe. His cavils againſt my Tranſlations. The effects of that Council at this day conſidered.
Ch. 21. Of the 2d Epheſ. Council. Of Cyril, the Eutychians, and Dioſcorus.
Ch. 22. Of the Calcedon Council: Pulcheria and Eudocia. What one ſound man can do in a Council. Whether our late Conciliatory Endeavours about Arminianiſm, have been as vain as theſe Councils. Of Theodoſ. 2. and the Eutychians. The whole ſtory of that Council. Luther as well as I, makes the Controverſie verbal. Of the Biſhops Peccavimus: Many Accuſations refelled: More of the Councils Succeſſes, and late Conciliators. The Weſtminſter Synod. Mr. M's way of Concord. Of the old Conformity and ours. Mr. Edwards Gangrena, and the late Sects and Hereſies.
Ch. 24. Of his 7th Chapter. Of the old Hereſies. Whether Projects for Moderation have been the chief diſtracters of the Church. He oſt falſly ſaith, that I charge the Biſhops with all the hereſies in the world. What it is that I ſay of them. The true cauſe of Schiſm confeſſed. His miſreports of the cauſe and Biſhops. His falſe ſaying of me that I compared Oliver and his ſon to David and Solomon My profeſt Repentance which he ſeigneth me an Enemy to. What Nonconformity is, and what his miſreports of it. An explitatory profeſſion of the meaning of this Book againſt Miſinterpreters.