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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 4
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But that which ripened the mischief was, that the Religious Houses of Egypt having four brothers, excellent men, for their overseers, Theophilus was restless till he got them away to him; one of them, Dioscorus, he made a Bishop; others living with him perceived that he was set upon heaping and hoarding ⟨p. 77⟩money, and that all his labour tended to gathering, [Dr. Hanmer translating this, puts in the Margin, This Bishop hath more fellows in the World. And noting how Theophilus to revenge himself persecuted his own Opinions, saith, This is a sin against the Holy Ghost.] would dwell with him no longer, but returned to their Wilderness. Theophilus prone to anger and revenge, endeavoured by all means to work them mischief; And the way he took was to accuse them to the Monks, for saying to him, that God had not a body, nor humane shape: And he himself was of the same Opinion, yet to be revenged of his Enemies, he stuck not to oppugn it; and sent to the Monks, not to obey Dioscorus or his Brethren, for they held that God had no body, whereas Scripture saith, that he hath eyes, ears, hands and feet, as men have; which with Origen they deny: By this treachery he set them all together by the ears; one side calling the other Origenists, and the other them Anthropomorphites; so it turned to bickering among the Monks, yea, to a deadly battle: And Theophilus went with Armed men and helped the Anthropomorphites.
But that which ripened the mischief was, that the Religious Houses of Egypt having four brothers, excellent men, for their overseers, Theophilus was restless till he got them away to him; one of them, Dioscorus, he made a Bishop; others living with him perceived that he was set upon heaping and hoarding ⟨p. 77⟩money, and that all his labour tended to gathering, [Dr. Hanmer translating this, puts in the Margin, This Bishop hath more fellows in the World. And noting how Theophilus to revenge himself persecuted his own Opinions, saith, This is a sin against the Holy Ghost.] would dwell with him no longer, but returned to their Wilderness. Theophilus prone to anger and revenge, endeavoured by all means to work them mischief; And the way he took was to accuse them to the Monks, for saying to him, that God had not a body, nor humane shape: And he himself was of the same Opinion, yet to be revenged of his Enemies, he stuck not to oppugn it; and sent to the Monks, not to obey Dioscorus or his Brethren, for they held that God had no body, whereas Scripture saith, that he hath eyes, ears, hands and feet, as men have; which with Origen they deny: By this treachery he set them all together by the ears; one side calling the other Origenists, and the other them Anthropomorphites; so it turned to bickering among the Monks, yea, to a deadly battel: And Theophilus went with Armed men and helped the Anthropomorphites.