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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
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.
§. 14. If any say it is arrogancy in me to say that such men had not skill enough to escape the deceit of such an ambiguity, I answer, humility maketh not men blind: The thing proveth it self. Judg by these following words of Nestorius and Cyril what they held.
§. 15. Nestorius Epist. ad Cyril: Nomen hoc, Christus, utramque naturam, patibilem scilicet & impatilibem in unicâ Personâ denotat. Quò idem Chrstus patibilis & impatibilis concipi queat; Illud quidem secundùm humanam naturam, hoc verò secundùm Divinaem.—In eo non injuria te laudo quod distinctionem naturarum secundùm Divinitatis & humanitatis rationem harumque in unâ duntaxat personâ conjunctionem praedicas.—1 Et quòd Divinitatem pati •on potuisse discrtè pronuncias: Haec enim omnia & vera sunt & Orthodoxa; & vanis omnium hareticorum circa D•mini naturas opinationibus quam maximè adversa sunt. Non dicit, solvite Divinitatem meam & intra triduum exsuscitabo illa••, sed solvite Templum hoc, &c.—Ubicunque Divinae Scriptura Dominica dispensationis mentionem faciunt, tum incarnationem, tum ipsam mortem & Passionem, non Divinae, sed Humanae Christi naturae semper tribuunt. Ergo si rem diligentius consideremus, sacra Virgo non Deipera, sed Christipera, appellanda erit (which signifieth that She is the Parent of the Humane nature, receiving the Divine in Union of Person.)—Quis ita desipiat ut unigeniti Divinitatem Spiritus sancti creaturam esse credat.—Sunt imumerae sententiae quae Divinitatem neque nuper natam, neque corporeae perpessionis capacem esse testantur.—Rectum Evangelicaeque traditioni consentaneum est, ut Christi Corpus Divinitatis Templum esse confiteamur, illudque nexu adeò sublimi Divinoque & admirabili ipsi conjunctum esse statuamus, ut Divina natura ea sibi vendicet, quae Coporis alioqui sint propria: Verùm propter eam sive communications sive appropriationis notionem, nativitatem, passionem, mortem caterasque carnis propietates Divino ⟨p. 91⟩