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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 5
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And lest they should fall together by the ears, (which he feared, by reason of their strange fierceness) he ordered their coming in so, that it might not be promiscuously: Nestorius and John of Antioch being come first, Cyril and his company (except Memnon) came next, and presently a great tumult and stir began, Cyril's Party saying, that the sight of Nestorius, whom they had deposed, was not to be endured: They would have the Scripture read: But those that favoured Cyril, said, that the Divine and terrible Scriptures were not to be read without Cyril, nor while Nestorius and the Oriental Bishops were present; and for this there was a Sedition, yea, a War, and Fight: The same said the Bishops that were with John, that Cyril ought not to be present at the Reading of the Scriptures, he and Memnon being deposed: The day being far spent thus, he attempted, excluding Cyril and Nestorius, to read the Emperors Orders to the rest; But Cyril's Party would not hear them, because they said Cyril and Memnon were unlawfully dep•sed: He had much a• do to persw. de them at last, (and indeed thrusting out ⟨p. 89⟩Nestorius and Cyril by force) so much as to hear the Emperors writing. But he made them hear it: In which Nestorius, Cyril, and Memnon, were deposed. Those that were with John heard it friendly, and approved it: The other clamoured, that Cyril and Memnon were wrongfully deposed: To avoid Sedition, Nestorius was committed to Candidianus Comes, and Cyril to Jacobus Comes (and Memnon after.) He concludeth, Quòd si pientissimos Episcopos videro implacatos & irreconciliabiles, (Nescio unde in hanc rabiem & asperitatem venerint,) &c. This was his Description of the carriage of this Council.
And lest they should fall together by the ears, (which he feared, by reason of their strange fierceness) he ordered their coming in so, that it might not be promiscuously: Nestorius and John of Antioch being come first, Cyril and his company (except Memnon) came next, and presently a great tumult and stir began, Cyril's Party saying, that the sight of Nestorius, whom they had deposed, was not to be endured: They would have the Scripture read: But those that favoured Cyril, said, that the Divine and terrible Scriptures were not to be read without Cyril, nor while Nestorius and the Oriental Bishops were present; and for this there was a Sedition, yea, a War, and Fight: The same said the Bishops that were with John, that Cyril ought not to be present at the Reading of the Scriptures, he and Memnon being deposed: The day being far spent thus, he attempted, excluding Cyril and Nestorus, to read the Emperours Orders to the rest; But Cyril's Party would not hear them, because they said Cyril and Memnon were unlawfully depsed: He had much a do to persw. de them at last, (and indeed thrusting out