The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…

The very controversy with its consequence was lamentable when one Council of Bishops at Constantinople had cast out excellent Gregory; another near cast out: excellent Chrysostom, his free speech and strict life being not endured, and chose an old useless man Arsacius; Atticus, and Sisinius that succeeded him being dead, the people did so dislike all the clergy of Constantinople, that they would have one like Chrysostom of a Monastery by Antioch; Nestorius a man of study, retirement, a poor garb, a strict life, abhorring public contentions, and loving quietness, but of a peevish zeal against dissenters called heretics, as enemies to the Churches unity and peace; so that he presently persecuted many of them even the Novatians themselves, and stirred up the Emperor to root them all out, and by Gods just judgement received such measure as he had measured. A quarrel arose whether Saint ⟨p. 272⟩Mary should be called The Mother or Parent of MAN, or that Parent of GOD: Nestorius, to the end the controversy, was against both, and would have her called, The Parent of Christ who was God and man (but not of God:) Some Startled at this; And Cyril of Alexandria (a man of great parts, spirit and power, the head of a turbulent people, the first Bishop, saith Socrates, that assumed the Sword) wrote Letters of reproof to him; and Celestine, Bishop of Rome seconded him: yea Cyril followeth it with writing upon writing, to prove that S. Mary must be called the Parent of God; with so great a number of words, and so many Anathematisms, as made the noise and flame great, but ambiguity made it seem dangerous to many; so that it grew to a great and open controversy, whether Nestorius or Cyril was a damnable Heretic; some so calling one, and some the other; so that the Emperor Theod. 2. was fain to call a General Council at Ephesus, to prevent the utter confusion of the Churches: There Nestorius came first, and once only appeared; and being charged with the Heresy of denying Mary to be the Parent of God, he told them, that he would not say that God was two or three months old, and so departed. To Cyril's large writings, he returned a short Letter, professing, that he was for the distinction of Natures only in the Unity of Person; but at large proveth that Christs Godhead had no beginning, that it could not suffer, or die, nor rise again;

The very controversie with its consequence was lamentable when one Council of Bishops at Constantinople had cast out excellent Gregory; another neer cast out: excellent Chrysostom, his free speech and strict life being not endured, and chose an old useless man Arsacius; Atticus, and Sisinius that succeeded him being dead, the people did so dislike all the clergy of Constantinople, that they would have one like Chrysostom of a Monastery by Antioch; Nestorius a man of study, retirement, a poor garb, a strict life, abhorring publick contentions, and loving quietness, but of a pievish zeal against dissenters called hereticks, as enemies to the Churches unity and peace; so that he presently persecuted many of them even the Novatians themselves, and stirred up the Emperour to root them all out, and by Gods just judgement received such measure as he had measured. A quarrel arose whether Saint