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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
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III. That these Bishops (though we honour them for all that was good in them) were so far from the Martyrs Constancy, that they turned as the Emperors Countenance, and the Times, and worldly Interest turned; voting down Things and Persons in Councils, and crying omnes peccavimus in the next: Only Peter's Ship, saith Binnius, scaped drowning at Ephesus, and yet here at Calcedon under Martian all are Orthodox.
III. That these Bishops (though we honour them for all that was good in them) were so far from the Martyrs Constancy, that they turned as the Emperours Countenance, and the Times, and worldly Interest turned; voting down Things and Persons in Councils, and crying omnes peccavimus in the next: Only Peter's Ship, saith Binnius, scaped drowning at Ephesus, and yet here at Calcedon under Martian all are Orthodox.
IV. But that which is worst of all is, that yet the same men that cry peocavimus are here violent against any mercy to the Egyptian Bishops and Monks with whom they had joined at Ephesus.
§. 20. When an Epistle of Cyril's was read, the Illyricane Bishop cried out, We all believe as Cyril did: Theodorete (that had been for Nestorius against Cyril, and cast out by Dioscorus) spake more warily, and said, Anathema to him that saith there are two Sons: We adore our Lord Jesus, &c. All the Bishops cried, We believe as Cyril. Had not Cyril's name better hap than Dioscorus and Eutyches, that followed him as far as they could understand him, and spake the same words as he?
§. 20. When an Epistle of Cyrils was read, the Illyricane Bishop cryed out, We all believe as Cyril did: Theodorete (that had been for Nestorius against Cyril, and cast out by Dioscorus) spake more warily, and said, Anathema to him that saith there are two Sons: We adore our Lord Iesus, &c. All the Bishops cryed, We believe as Cyril. Had not Cyril's name better hap than Dioscorus and Eutyches, that followed him as far as they could understand him, and spake the same words as he?