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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 7
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When Justinian was earnestly set upon this Project, the Defenders of the Calcedon Council perceived themselves in a difficulty; should they condemn these three men, they would seem to condemn the Council (about which there had been such a stir in the Empire:) And they should seem to justify the Eutychians, and to strengthen them: And if Council were against Council, it would dishonour Councils: And if they should refuse the Condemnation, they would seem to desert Cyril, and the first Ephesian Council, and perhaps might be called Nestorians; but, worst of all, they should displease the Emperor, and might occasion his favouring the Eutychians. Therefore they took this prudent course, to put off the business to a General Council, and to delay till then the Emperors attempts.
When Iustinian was earnestly set upon this Project, the Defenders of the Calcedon Council perceived themselves in a difficulty; should they condemn these three men, they would seem to condemn the Council (about which there had been such a stir in the Empire:) And they should seem to justifie the Eutychians, and to strengthen them: And if Council were against Council, it would dishonour Councils: And if they should refuse the Condemnation, they would seem to desert Cyril, and the first Ephesian Council, and perhaps might be called Nestorians; but, worst of all, they should displease the Emperor, and might occasion his favouring the Eutychians. Therefore they took this prudent course, to put off the business to a General Council, and to delay till then the Emperors attempts.
But the Emperor did first publish his Edict, in which after the Confession of his Faith, and praise of the four Councils, he addeth ten Curses (Anathematisms, according to the Custom and Religion of those times) of which the three last are against the tria Capitula, or the Councils seeming approbation of the three forenamed men. The Bishops resisted a great while, but at last were forced to submit.