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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 2
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Nestorius (though somewhat worse judged of by Cyril than he deserved) was justly condemned, were it but for his heat and fierceness against others: He fell presently upon the Novatians and other Parties, and began with this overdoing zeal at his entrance, O Emperor, give me a Church without Heresy, and I will give-thee Victory over the Persians: that is, Destroy all these dissenting Parties and God will prosper thee: And very quickly was he deposed, condemned, and at last banished even to misery and death as an Heretic (whether justly or no I shall say more anon.)
Nestorius (though somewhat worse judged of by Cyril than he deserved) was justly condemned, were it but for his heat and fierceness against others: He fell presently upon the Novatians and other Parties, and began with this overdoing zeal at his entrance, O Emperour, give me a Church without Heresie, and I will give-thee Victory over the Persians: that is, Destroy all these dissenting Parties and God will prosper thee: And very quickly was he deposed, condemned, and at last banished even to misery and death as an Heretick (whether justly or no I shall say more anon.)
The Eutychians were as great Zealots against Error and Heresy as any of the rest: They took Cyril for their Captain whom Theodoret and Isidore Pelusiota that knew him, describe as heinously proud and turbulent, and Socrates as the first Bishop that himself used the Sword. Dioscorus raged at the second Council of Ephesus against dissenters, and all in Zeal against Nestorian Heresy. But what dreadful work his Eutychian Party and Successors made, I have elsewhere showed: And all as against Heresy.
The Eutychians were as great Zealots against Errour and Heresie as any of the rest: They took Cyril for their Captain whom Theodoret and Isydore Pelusiota that knew him, describe as heynously proud and turbulent, and Socrates as the first Bishop that himself used the Sword. Dioscorus raged at the second Council of Ephesus against dissenters, and all in Zeal against Nestorian Heresie. But what dreadful work his Eutychian Party and Successors made, I have elsewhere shewed: And all as against Heresie.