Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§. 28. Juvenal Hierosol. Thalassius, and the rest of the Leaders, at Ephes. Council 2, were pardoned: Ibas his Epistle to Maris against Cyril was acquit, or at least the Bishop upon the reading of it. It is a sad Narrative of the Calamitous Divisions which these Prelates and their Councils made. He said that Cyril writ against Nestorius that there was but one nature in Christ, &c. Haec omnia impietatis plena: He tells how Cyril prepossessed the Bishops before they met, and made his hatred of Nestorius his Cause. How he condemned Nestorius two days before John of Antioch came: How afterward they condemned and deposed one another: How Nestorius was in hatred with the Great men of Constantinople, which was his fall: How John and Cyril's Bishops or Councils would not Communicate with each other: How they set Bishops against Bishops, and People against People, and a mans Enemies were those of his own household: How the Pagans scorned the Christians hereupon: For (saith he) no man durst travel from City to City, ¹or from Province to Province, but each one persecuted his neighbour as his enemy: For many not having the fear of ⟨p. 109⟩God, by occasion of Ecclesiastical zeal, made haste to bring forth the hidden enmity of their hearts against others: (he instanceth in some Persecutors) and showeth how Paulus Emissevus helped to heal them.

§. 28. Iuvenal Hierosol. Thalassius, and the rest of the Leaders, at Ephes. Council 2, were pardoned: Ibas his Epistle to Maris against Cyril was acquit, or at least the Bishop upon the reading of it. It is a sad Narrative of the Calamitous Divisions which these Prelates and their Councils made. He said that Cyril writ against Nestorius that there was but one nature in Christ, &c. Haec omnia impietatis plena: He tells how Cyril preposessed the Bishops before they met, and made his hatred of Nestorius his Cause. How he condemned Nestorius two days before Iohn of Antioch came: How afterward they condemned and deposed one another: How Nestorius was in hatred with the Great men of Constantinople, which was his fall: How Iohn and Cyril's Bishops or Councils would not Communicate with each other: How they set Bishops against Bishops, and People against People, and a mans Enemies were those of his own household: How the Pagans scorned the Christians hereupon: For (saith he) no man durst travel from City to City,