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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.
On the other party were those that had cleaved to Nestorius by name, and had been persecuted for his Cause; And these were a separate Body, and cried down the other as Eutychians.
On the other party were those that had cleaved to Nestorius by name, and had been persecuted for his Cause; And these were a separate Body, and cryed down the other as Eutychians.
Those called Orthodox or Catholics cried down Nestorians and Eutychians by name, indeed defending the same Doctrine as Nestorius, except as to the fitness of the word [Greek or Hebrew]. And the chief of Nestorius his first adherents perceiving that indeed they were of one judgment, united with these against the Eutychians. I have showed that all of them seemed to make all this stir but about some Words which one party took in one sense and the other in another. For these words the Bishops cast the Christian World into confusion, destroyed Love and Unity under a pretence of keeping the Faith; so that the Church was lamentably militant; Bishops against Bishops, in continual enmity and rage. The Emperors at their wits end not knowing how to end the Ecclesiastical odious Wars: And the Heathens hardened and deriding them all and their Religion.
Those called Orthodox or Catholicks cryed down Nestorians and Eutychians by name, indeed defending the same Doctrine as Nestorius, except as to the fitness of the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And the chief of Nestorius his first adherents perceiving that indeed they were of one judgment, united with these against the Eutychians. I have shewed that all of them seemed to make all this stir but about some Words which one party took in one sense and the other in another. For these words the Bishops cast the Christian World into confusion, destroyed Love and Unity under a pretence of keeping the Faith; so that the Church was lamentably militant; Bishops against Bishops, in continual enimity and rage. The Emperours at their wits end not knowing how to end the Ecclesiastical odious Wars: And the Heathens hardened and deriding them all and their Religion.