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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 6
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. CXXX. Now cometh the great Council at Calcedon, under the new Emperor Martian, where all is changed for a time; Yet Pulcheria who married him and made him Emperor, and whose power then was great, was the same that before had been against Nestorius in her Brothers ⟨p. 100⟩reign: Never was it truer than in the Case of General Councils, that the Multitude of Physicians, exasperateth the Disease, and killeth the Patient. The word [[Greek or Hebrew]] the [one nature after union] the words [one will and one operation] had never done half so much mischief in the Church, if the erroneous had been confuted by neglect, and Councils had not exasperated, enraged, and engaged them, and set all the World on taking one side or another. One skilful healing man that could have explicated ambiguous terms, and persuaded men to Love and Peace, till they had understood themselves and one another, had more befriended Truth, Piety, and the Church, than all the Hereticating Councils did.
§. 14. CXXX. Now cometh the great Council at Calcedon, under the new Emperour Martian, where all is changed for a time; Yet Pulcheria who marryed him and made him Emperour, and whose power then was great, was the same that before had been against Nestorius in her Brothers ⟨p. 100⟩reign: Never was it truer than in the Case of General Councils, that the Multitude of Physicians, exasperateth the Disease, and killeth the Patient. The word [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] the [one nature after union] the words [one will and one opperation] had never done half so much mischief in the Church, if the erroneous had been confuted by neglect, and Councils had not exasperated, enraged, and engaged them, and set all the World on taking one side or another. One skilfull healing man that could have explicated ambiguous terms, and perswaded men to Love and Peace, till they had understood themselves and one another, had more befriended Truth, Piety, and the Church, than all the Hereticating Councils did.