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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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§. 23. When the Emperor saw that there was no reconciling the Bishops, but by force, he authorized Aristolaus, a Lay-Magistrate, to call Cyril and Joh. Antioch. to Nicomedia, and keep them both there till they were agreed: whereupon John communed with his Bishops, and they yielded, having no remedy, to the deposition of Nestorius, the Ordination of Maximinianus in his stead, and communion among themselves. This is called another Council.
§. 23. When the Emperour saw that there was no reconciling the Bishops, but by force, he authorized Aristolaus, a Lay-Magistrate, to call Cyril and Ioh. Antioch. to Nicomedia, and keep them both there till they were agreed: whereupon Iohn communed with his Bishops, and they yielded, having no remedy, to the deposition of Nestorius, the Ordination of Maximinianus in his stead, and communion among themselves. This is called another Council.
It would grieve one to read the Emperor Theodosius importuning Simeon Stylites, a poor Anchorite, to try whether by Prayer and Counsel he could bring the Bishops to Unity, and concluding, [This discord doth so trouble me, that I judge that this only hath been the chief occasion of all my calamities.] Bin. p. 928.
It would grieve one to read the Emperour Theodosius importuning Simeon Stylites, a poor Anchorite, to try whether by Prayer and Counsel he could bring the Bishops to Unity, and concluding, [This discord doth so trouble me, that I judge that this only hath been the chief occasion of all my calamities.] Bin. p. 928.
§. 24. CXIV. An. 433. There was a Council called at Rome to clear ⟨p. 96⟩Pope Sixtus from an accusation of one Bassus, of ravishing a Nun.