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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 8
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.
§ 1. Being come to the Reign of Pope Honorius at Rome, who was condemned by 2 or 3 General Councils for a Monothelite Heretic, (as Vigilius was by his own Bishops for an Eutychian) and having showed you what work both the heretical and hereticating Bishops and Council made in the world about (not only [Greek or Hebrew], but) [Greek or Hebrew], one Nature, and the condemning of dead men; I shall next show you what work they made also about the words, [One Operation, and One Will,] or [Two Operations, and Two Wills.] Reader, Wouldst thou think that there were venom enough in one of these words, to poison almost all the Bishops in the world with the Plagues of Heresy, or Heretication and Contention?
§ 1. BEing come to the Reign of Pope Honorius at Rome, who was condemned by 2 or 3 General Councils for a Monothelite Heretick, (as Vigilius was by his own Bishops for an Eutychian) and having shewed you what work both the heretical and hereticating Bishops and Council made in the world about (not only 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, one Nature, and the condemning of dead men; I shall next shew you what work they made also about the words, [One Operation, and One Will,] or [Two Operations, and Two Wills.] Reader, Wouldst thou think that there were venom enough in one of these words, to poyson almost all the Bishops in the world with the Plagues of Heresie, or Heretication and Contention?
§ 2. The old Controversy still keeping the Churches all in pieces, some being for two Natures after Union, and for the Calcedon Council, and others against it, and but for one Nature after Union: Cyrus, Bishop of Alexandria, was told, that it would unite them all, if they would confess One Operation, and One Will in Christ, or at least lay by the talk of One and Two, and use the words, [Dei virilis Operatio.] The Operation (and Will) of Godman. CXCVII. He therefore called a Synod at Alexandria, in which this was decreed (called Satisfaction.) For they said that Dei virilis signified two Natures, and so they thought they had at last hit the way of concord, which neither the General Council of