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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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His fourth proof that Cyril was an Eutychian, is from all those places where he saith, that the Godhead and Manhood are made one nature as the soul and body of man are.
His fifth order of proofs is from the words where he oft attributeth the same operations, and the same attributes to both nature.
His sixth proof is from the testimony of Ibas Edes. apud Facund. l. 6. c. 3. Ge•ad. Const. ibid, l. 2. p. 77, 78. Johan. Antioch. Theodoret, &c.
His sixth proof is from the testimony of Ibas Edes. apud Facund. l. 6. c. 3. Ge•ad. Const. ibid, l. 2. p. 77, 78. Iohan. Antioch. Theodoret, &c.
§. 20. For my part, I again say, past doubt, that neither Nestorius nor Cyril were Heretical de re; but that they were of one mind, and that one spake of the concrete, and the other of the abstract; that one spake of Christus qui Deus, and the other of Christus quà Deus. But (pardon truth, or be deceived still) ignorance, pride, and envy, and faction, and desire to please the Court, made Cyril and his Party, by quarrelsome Heretication, to kindle that lamentable flame in the World. But sin serveth the sinners turn but for the present, and becometh afterward his shame. All the Bishops would not follow Cyril. At this day the falsely Hereticated Nestorians (saith Breerwood Enquir. p. 139.) inhabits a great part of the East, for besides the Countries of Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Parthia, and Media, they are spread far and wide, both Northerly to Cataya, and Southerly to India: Marcus