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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.
§ 31. CCXII. Bede saith, an English Council met, An. 679. under Theodorus, to own the Catholic Faith, Bed. l. 4. c. 13.
§ 31. CCXII. Beda saith, an English Council met, An. 679. under Theodorus, to own the Catholick Faith, Bed. l. 4. c. 13.
§ 32. CCXIII. The same year 679. A Council at Milan told the Emperor their opinion for Two Wills and Operations.
§ 33. CCXIV. A Synod at Rome prepared matter for the General Council against the Monothelites. This tended to please the separating Bishops of Italy that divided from the Pope, for seeming to desert the Calcedon Council by condemning the tria Capitula.
§ 34. CCXV. Now cometh the 3d Council of Constantine, called the 6th General Council, in which 289 Bishops condemned the Monothelites, that were for One Will and Operation. Constantine Pog. being against them; Macarius Patriarch of Antioch was the chief of them, who would have consented to name neither One nor Two, but when they had done all, professed that he would be cast into the Sea, before he would say there were in Christ two Wills and Operations; thinking that he held to Cyril, and the first Ephesian Council against Nestorius. George Bishop of Constantinople deserted him, and he was deposed and banished (to Rome; no hard Banishment but for ill company.)