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

post unionem vero ademptâ jam in duas divisione, unam esse credimus naturam filii incarnati:) And that Nestorius expressly assureth that there are two natures and but one person: The citations are numerous and undeniable. But I think that Cyril, Eutyches and Dioscorus (who were all of one mind) did mean that the natures were but one in opposition to division, but not in opposition to distinction. And that Nestorius said they were two as distinguished but not as divided, and all ⟨p. 289⟩this blood, separation and confusion was between men of one mind, for want of skill in the explication of words, and through worldly designs. I know some will say, were all these Councils of Bishops such fools in comparison of you? But can a man deny notorious truth in reverence to Bishops? If so, which part of the Bishops must I believe if they say the snow is black: The Arians, and Eutychians were far the greater number.

post unionem vero ademptâ jam in duas divisione, unam esse credimus naturam filii incarnati:) And that Nestorius expresly assureth that there are two natures and but one person: The citations are numerous and undeniable. But I think that Cyril, Eutyches and Dioscorus (who were all of one mind) did mean that the natures were but one in opposition to division, but not in opposition to distinction. And that Nestorius said they were two as distinguished but not as divided, and all ⟨p. 289⟩this blood, separation and confusion was between men of one mind, for want of skill in the explication of words, and through worldly designs. I know some will say, were all these Councils of Bishops such fools in comparison of you? But can a man deny notorious truth in reverence to Bishops? If so, which part of the Bishops must I believe if they say the snow is black: The Arrians, and Eutychians were far the greater number.

And now as the best Philosophers think that experiments de facto must be premised to the Theory, so we think this touch of history must be considered by them that think Jewish High Priesthood, or National, Patriarchal or Metropolitical superiority is the necessary means of the Churches Concord: Let them compare the dissentions caused by little village Bishops and synods for mere Concord, yea or by separating heady people, with these which Patriarchal and Metropolitical seats have caused, and they will appear to be to them but as a scuffle at Billingsgate to the French Wars: And yet we have instanced but in the best times of dominion, in comparison of which Councils, Prelates and later times have been a mere hurricane. In a word, they that think that the mischiefs of superior seats are greater than the benefits, do appeal to all Church history, whether they have not been the true and principal causes of the distractions of the Christian world, and of the long division of the East and West, and of many civil and grievous wars.