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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Post Nicenam Synodum nihil aliud quàm Fidem scribimus; dumb in Verbis pugna est; dum de novitatibus quaestio est; dum de ambiguis, dum de authoribus querela est; dum de studiis certamen est; dum in consensu difficultas est; dumque alter alteri Anathema esse coepit, propè jam Nemo est Christi. Proximi anni fides quid immutationis habet? Primum decretum Homousion decernit taceri: sequens rursùs Homousion decernit & praedicit: Tertium usiam simplicitèr à Patribus praesumptam per indulgentiam excusat; Postremum quartumque non excusat sed condemnat: Tandem eò processum est ut neque penes nos, neque penes quenquam ante nos sanctum exinde aliquid atque inviolabile perseveret. Annuas atque Menstruas de Deo Fides decernimus: decretis poenitemus; penitents defendimus: defensos Anathematizamus; aut in nostris aliena, aut in alienis nostra damnamus, & mordentes invicem jam absumpti sumus ab invicem.
Post Nicenam Synodum nihil aliud quàm Fidem scribimus; dum in Verbis pugna est; dum de novitatibus quaestio est; dum de ambiguis, dum de authoribus querela est; dum de studiis certamen est; dum in consensu difficultas est; dumque alter alteri Anathema esse coepit, propè jam Nemo est Christi. Proximi anni fides quid immutationis habet? Primum decretum Homousion decernit taceri: sequens rursùs Homousion decernit & praedicit: Tertium usiam simplicitèr à Patribus praesumptam per indulgentiam excusat; Postremum quartumque non excusat sed condemnat: Tandem eò processum est ut neque penes nos, neque penes quenquam ante nos sanctum exinde aliquid atque inviolabile perseveret. Annuas atque Menstruas de Deo Fides decernimus: decretis poenitemus; poenitentes defendimus: defensos Anathematizamus; aut in nostris aliena, aut in alienis nostra damnamus, & mordentes invicem jam absumpti sumus ab invicem.
Is not this a doleful description of the Bishops so soon after their wonderful deliverance and exaltation?