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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 3
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§. 11. It is not to be past over that at the Nicene Council, the first speaker, and one of the chief against the Arians, was Eustathius Bishop of Antioch; And when Eusebius Nicomed. was made Bishop of Constantinople, he pretended a desire to see Jerusalem, and passing through Antioch secretly hired a Whore to swear, that Eustathius was the Father of her child: and getting some Bishops of his Faction together, they judged Eustathius to be deposed, as an Adulterer; and got the Emperor to consent and banish him: And after, the Woman in misery, confessed all, and said, that it was one Eustathius a Smith, that was the father of her child.
§. 11. It is not to be past over that at the Nicene Council, the first speaker, and one of the chief against the Arians, was Eustathius Bishop of Antioch; And when Eusebius Nicomed. was made Bishop of Consta•tinople, he pretended a desire to see Ierusalem, and passing through Antioch secretly hired a Whore to swear, that Eustathius was the Father of her child: and getting some Bishops of his Faction together, they judged Eustathius to be deposed, as an Adulterer; and got the Emperour to consent and banish him: And after, the Woman in misery, confessed all, and said, that it was one Eustathius a Smith, that was the father of her child.
§. 12. In Pisanus's Con•il. Nic. Bin. p. 332. this Eustathius is made the first Disputer against a Philosopher: And whereas the great cause of the Arians Error was, that they could not conceive how the Son could be of one substance with the Father, without a partition of that substance, Eustathius tells the Philosopher that took their part and urged, Faciamus hominem ad Imaginem, &c. that The Image of God is simple, and without all composition, being of the nature of fire: but he meaneth sure but analogically:
§. 12. In Pisanus's Con•il. Nic. Bin. p. 332. this Eustathius is made the first Disputer against a Philosopher: And whereas the great cause of the Arians Errour was, that they could not conceive how the Son could be of one substance with the Father, without a partition of that substance, Eustathius tells the Philosopher that took their part and urged, Faciamus hominem ad Imaginem, &c. that The Image of God is simple, and without all composition, being of the nature of fire: but he meaneth sure but analogically: