An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of…An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of…

partly, by some stiffness & inflexibility of spirit in some of them, accompanied with much hardness to be reconciled when once offended, to those with whom they were displeased, from which blemish Chrysostom was not altogether free, and that caused him somewhat the more trouble. 3. partly by mistakes, as in the difference between Theodoret and Cyril, and in the division between the Christians of the East, and those of the West, the one suspecting the other of heresy, upon a mistake, For the Romans believed three persons in the Trinity but would not believe three hypostases, & thence the Oriental Christians thought them Sabellians, who held that there is but one person in the Godhead called by three names. The Eastern Christians believed three hypostases in the Godhead, but would not admit three persons, whence they of Rome thought them to be Arians, who believed that there are three distinct substances in the Godhead. Athanasius, perceiving that they differed not in judgment, brought them to accord, by showing them that they meant one thing, though their ⟨image 8⟩expressions were different, so that there was a difference arising from ill suspicion which was grounded upon misunderstanding one another. Lastly, from an ill guided Zeal, whereby (beside the former) Luther and those that adhered to him were carried too far in opposition against Zwinglius, about the Sacrament, which afterwards Luther saw, and confessed to Melanchthon, a little before his death, that his writings, in that controversy had been too bitter, & professed his inclination to publish some thing for the qualifying of them, but that be feared the scandal that might grow upon such his retractation, as is to be seen in the Admonition of the Divines of the County Palatine concerning the book called liber concordiae. Thus a groundless jealousy sharpened Luther's spirit in that controversy, and a groundless jealousy hindered him from retracting what he had written. Had the same jealousy hindered Augustine, the whole Christian world had been losers thereby, wanting that help by his book of Retractations, which now they have.

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