A26965:822
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.
Timothy Bishop of Constantinople took the man pleasing way, and one while was for the Calcedon Council, another while he cursed it. Being to choose an Abbot, the Abbot refused his election, unless he consented to the Council of Calcedon. Timothy cursed those presently that received not the Council: His Archdeacon hearing him, ⟨p. 286⟩reproached him that like Euripus, rolled every way: The Emperor hearing it, rebuked him, and Timothy washed away the charge and presently cursed every one that received the Council. Niceph. c. 35. Yet Rome though now under another King (Theodoric an Aria Goth) had a part in the Schism: Festus a Roman Senator was sent from Theodoric to the Emperor on an Embassy: Which when he had done, he desired that Constantinople would keep holy days for Peter and Paul as Rome did, and he prevailed: And he secretly assured the Emperor that Anastasius Bishop of Rome would receive the Henoticon (to suspend the consent to the Calcedon Council) and would subscribe it. But when the Ambassador came home, the Pope was dead: To make good his word, he got a party to choose Laurentius Pope, that would do it: The people (that then had the chief choice) chose Symmachus so there were two Popes: And the sedition continued three years not without slaughters, rapines and other calamities (Niceph. c. 35.) till Theodoric an A•rian more righteous than the Popes, called a synod and confirmed Symmachus: But Laurentius stirred up the people to sedition and was quite degraded. The Emperor favouring the addition [Qui Crucifixus est pro nobis] the people seditiously cut off a Monks head and set it up on a pole inscribing it an enemy to the Trinity: The Emperor overcome with their confusion and orthodox rebellions, called an assembly and offered to resign his Crown, desiring them to choose another; which note them with such remorse, that they desired him to reassume his Crown and promised to forbear ⟨p. 287⟩sedition: But lie dyed shortly after. But I must not transcribe historical Volumes. Justin succeeded Anastasius in the Empire, and Justinian him: These were for the Synod: But Theodora Justinian's Wife was against it: Some thought by compact, that each part might have a head, which was indeed but one (Niceph. l. 17. c. 7.) Should I tell you in their reigns how the Ecclesiastical war continued, how Pope Agathon munus imposuit Menae Constant.