Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

It was zeal against Error which made both the Novatians and the Donatists ⟨p. 33⟩run into Error, and keep up their Parties as more pure from the Crimes of Idolaters, Traditors, Libellaticks, and other Criminals.

It was zeal against Errour which made both the Novatians and the Donatists ⟨p. 33⟩run into Errour, and keep up their Parties as more pure from the Crimes of Idolaters, Traditors, Libellaticks, and other Criminals.

Sulpitius Severus describeth Ithacius as a man that cared not what he said or did, and the rest of the Synod of Bishops about him as unfit to be communicated with; that would bring Christianity it self into reproach by their furious opposition to Heretics: And who would have thought but these Bishops had been very good men themselves, that were so zealous against the Priscillianists, as to procure the Death of some, and the Banishment of others, and bring Martin himself, and other strict abstemious people into the suspicion of Priscillianism?

Sulpitius Severus describeth Ithacius as a man that cared not what he said or did, and the rest of the Synod of Bishops about him as unfit to be communicated with; that would bring Christianity it self into reproach by their furious opposition to Hereticks: And who would have thought but these Bishops had been very good men themselves, that were so zealous against the Priscillianists, as to procure the Death of some, and the Banishment of others, and bring Martin himself, and other strict abstemious people into the suspicion of Priscillianism?