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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
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§ 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.)
§ 35. A long stir there was among them, perusing former Writings; Macarius and his Party producing many, which others said were falsified (so little certainty is there oft of Copies.) The Epistles of Sergius Const. & Honour. Rom. are read, which I should think peaceable and honest; but the General Council damned and cursed them both as Heretics. The Papists say, General Councils may err in matter of Fact: How much more then in matter of Faith, which is more obscure? and matter of Fact is much of the matter of our Faith.
§ 35. A long stir there was among them, perusing former Writings; Macarius and his Party producing many, which others said were falsified (so little certainty is there oft of Copies.) The Epistles of Sergius Const. & Honor. Rom. are read, which I should think peaceable and honest; but the General Council damned and cursed them both as Hereticks. The Papists say, General Councils may err in matter of Fact: How much more then in matter of Faith, which is more obscure? and matter of Fact is much of the matter of our Faith.
No Man's name had so strange a Fate against Hereticaters, as the great Hereticater Cyril's; who (in this Council in Cyrus artic. and many others) was fully proved to assert One Nature of God incarnate after the Union] and yet called Orthodox, and those that said as he, and much less, were damned Heretics.