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

§ 23. Liberatus in his Breviary saith, (c. 3. 10. 24.) that Theodore Mopsu. his Works were approved by Proclus, Johan. Antioch. the Emperor, the Council of Calced. &c. But Binnius saith, Nimis impudenter & incautè: Yet all acknowledge Liberatus a most credible Historian, and lived in Justinian's time. He saith also, that Nefandissimum haereticum Theodoretus & Sozomenus laudarunt adeo ut hac de causá uterque magnam nominis sui jacturam passus fuerit, &c. But wise men are apt to think as hardly of such as can cry out Nefandissimum haereticum against all that speak as unskilfully as this man did, as of charitable men that praise them for what is good, while they disown their frailties and imperfections: If it be as he saith, many thought that •heodoret assumed his own name from this Theodore, by reason of his high esteem of him, it's like he had some special worth, though he hath many culpable expressions. And Sozomen is an Historian of so deserved reputation, that it seemeth to me no argument of Pope Gregory's Infallibility, that he saith, lib. 6. ep. 95. Sozomenùm ejusque Historiam sedes Apostolica ⟨p. 185⟩recipere recusat; quoniam multa mentitur, & Theodorum Mopsuestiae nimium laudat, atque ad diem obitus sui magnum Doctorem Ecclesiae fuisse perhibet.] I think the Author of Gregory's Dialogues did plura mentiri, and yet that Gregory was Magnus Ecclesiae Doctor.

§ 23. Liberatus in his Breviary saith, (c. 3. 10. 24.) that Theodore Mopsu. his Works were approved by Proclus, Iohan. Antioch. the Emperor, the Council of Calced. &c. But Binnius saith, Nimis impudenter & incautè: Yet all acknowledge Liberatus a most credible Historian, and lived in Iustinian's time. He saith also, that Nefandissimum haereticum Theodoretus & Sozomenus laudarunt adeo ut hac de causá uterque magnam nominis sui jacturam passus fuerit, &c. But wise men are apt to think as hardly of such as can cry out Nefandissimum haereticum against all that speak as unskilfully as this man did, as of charitable men that praise them for what is good, while they disown their frailties and imperfections: If it be as he saith, many thought that •heodoret assumed his own name from this Theod•re, by reason of his high esteem of him, it's like he had some special worth, though he hath many culpable expressions. And Sozomen is an Historian of so deserved reputation, that it seemeth to me no argument of Pope Gregory's Infallibility, that he saith, lib. 6. ep. 95. Sozomenùm ejusque Historiam sedes Apostolica