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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
that now there was hope the Churches might have peace, the great enemy of all peace being gone to the place where such men cease to trouble, &c. But so great was the rupture thus made, that to this day it is not healed, great part of the East adhering then to Nestorius, and those Country-Christians being called Nestorian Heretics and out of the Church by the Papists to disgrace them, because they will not own their Pope. Nestorius being thus condemned, Eutyches thought he would be far enough from his Heresy, and said, that the Union of Christ's two Natures made them to be but one: This Heresy one ⟨p. 276⟩Council at Constant. under Flavian, condemned. Another after by the countenance of the Emperor acquit him: The Emperor Theod. 2. commandeth a General Council again at Ephesus, and maketh Dioscorus President; who being Cyril's Successor, though he had held to his Doctrine against Nestorius▪ for the Unitive Predication; and though he professed that the Synod meddled not de side, but about matter of Justice between Flavian and Eutyches, yet countenanced by the Emperor, he domineered, and by threatening got all the General Council save the Popes Legates to subscribe against Flavian, and he was beaten, and died of the hurt, saith Bin. Notes, In hoc tam horrendo Episcoporum suffragio sola Naviculd Petri incolum•s emergens, salvatur. The whole Council went against the Pope, and the right: But sure Christ's United Natures are in several senses both two and one; but two in the primary and most proper sense.
that now there was hope the Churches might have peace, the great enemy of all peace being gone to the place where such men cease to trouble, &c. But so great was the rupture thus made, that to this day it is not healed, great part of the East adhering then to Nestorius, and those Country-Christians being called Nestorian Hereticks and out of the Church by the Papists to disgrace them, because they will not own their Pope. Nestorius being thus condemned, Eutyches thought he would be far enough from his Heresie, and said, that the Union of Christ's two Natures made them to be but one: This Heresie one ⟨p. 276⟩Council at Constant. under Flavian, condemned. Another after by the countenance of the Emperour acquit him: The Emperour Theod. 2. commandeth a General Council again at Ephsus, and maketh Dioscorus President; who being Cyril's Successor, though he had held to his Doctrine against Nestorius for the Unitive Predication; and though he professed that the Synod medled not de side, but about matter of Justice between Flavian and Eutyches, yet countenanced by the Emperour, he domineered, and by threatning got all the General Council save the Popes Legates to subscribe against Flavian, and he was beaten, and died of the hurt, saith Bin. Notes, In hoc tam horrendo Episcoporum suffragio sola Naviculd Petri incolums emergens, salvatur. The whole Council went against the Pope, and the right: But sure Christ's United Natures are in several senss both two and one; but two in the primary and most proper sense.