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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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§. 37. The great number of Letters sent from the Bishops to Leo when he was made Emperor, which were sent in answer to his own to them, engaged him the more for the Council Party, and against Timothy Aelurus: He deposed him and put Timothy Salophaciolus in his place: But the City was all in confusion between the two Timothies, 1Bishops. The Egyptian Bishops write to the Emperor against Timothy and Eutychian. The Emperor sends forth his circular Letters, commanding all to own the Calcedon Council. At Antioch Petrus Cnapheus ambitious of the Archbishopric got into Martyrius place; by Zeno's help: And thinking they were still managing only the Controversy against the Nestorians, and taking the Orthodox for Nestorian Heretics, all were accursed by Anathema's ⟨p. 112⟩that would not say that God was crucified and suffered (The Orthodox doing the same,) and thus they increased the Confusions. Martyrius their true Bishop when he saw that he could do no good upon them, forsook them, with these words, Clero rebelli, & populo inobedienti, & Ecclesiae contaminatae Nuncium remitto. I renounce a rebellious Clergy, a disobedient People, and a defiled Church. Petrus Cnapheus kept the Bishopric, and reviled the Calcedon Council. Leo the Emperor banisheth him: Stephanus a friend to the Council is put into the place: That you may know how the Council had united the people, even the Boys were set on to kill this new Bishop with sharp Quills.
§. 37. The great number of Letters sent from the Bishops to Leo when he was made Emperour, which were sent in answer to his own to them, engaged him the more for the Council Party, and against Timothy Aelurus: He deposed him and put Timothy Salophaciolus in his place: But the City was all in confusion between the two Timothies, 1Bishops. The Egyptian Bishops write to the Emperour against Timothy and Eutychiane. The Emperour sends forth his circular Letters, commanding all to own the Calcedon Council. At Antioch Petrus Cnapheus ambitious of the Archbishoprick got into Martyrius place; by Zeno's help: And thinking they were still managing only the Controversie against the Nestorians, and taking the Orthodox for Nestorian Hereticks, all were accursed by Anathema's ⟨p. 112⟩