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

and therefore that those things which were said of the Manhood, must not be said of the Godhead, that it was begotten, dyed, &c. unless they would be Heretics or Pagans. Read their confession ⟨p. 273⟩brought into the Council against them by Charysius and their Anathemata's after; and I think you will see, that the error of Nestorius lay in his want of skill in speaking, and that one side spoke of a phrase de abstracto, and the other of the Concrete; and if so, both meant the same thing, though Cyril was judged to use the most skilful words: Cyril denied not but that the Deity was not begotten or Crucified, but said that God was begotten and Crucified, and was passible; Nestorius denied not that he who was God in one person with the manhood, was begotten, Crucified and passible, but not the Deity. But Cyril said that the phrase [God was born, Crucified, &c.] was good; yea necessary, and not (without anathematized heresy) to be denied, because in one person the titles and actions are communicable: Nestorius said, that it was wicked to communicate the infirmities of humanity to the Deity, as to say, God did grow bigger, and was afraid, and was hungry, and needed help from Angels, and died.) For he thought this phrase applied it to the Deity: (Let any man that's impartial, judge whether this Controversy were not about words rather than matter.) Theodoret was a greater Scholar than Nestorius, and he became the Champion of his Cause, supposing that Locutio formalis est maximo propria; and therefore that he that saith God had a beginning, increase, death, passions, must be supposed to mean it, qua Deus, as he is God: And so two Saints, St. Cyril and St. Theodoret, fell at large to prove each other damnable Heretics. John, Patriarch of Antioch, being far off, was long in coming to the Synod. Memnon, Bishop of Ephesus, joining with Cyril, before he […] Bishops came, beg•n and condemned, and ⟨p. 274⟩deposed Nestorius as a Heretic. Nestorius let them all alone, and meddled little himself, alleging that Candidianus Comes for bad him to appear. But when John of Ant. came, he took Nestorius's part, and gathered a Council with himself, and Candidianus the Emperors Officer took his part. John's Council condemned and deposed Cyril and Memnon, as they had done Nestorius: And thus two Councils at Ephesus sate damning one another.