And being banished, set up so great a Party in Syria, and other Countries, to this day, called Nestorians, as continue the abhorrence of the Council of Calc•don and Ephesus, and the Church of Rome, and the great Divisions of the Christian Church, Would the tolerating of the accused Phrase have done so much Hurt as this?
And did the Bishops and Councils, that condemned his Adversaries, Eutiches and Dioscorus, ⟨p. 53⟩and banished him that was the second Patriarch of the East, do less hurt to the Church, than it would have done, to have patiently instructed them in what sense Christ's Nature remained Two, and to have granted, that in other sense and respect, they might be called One, as agreeing and united? When now the Eutychian Jacobites, by Dioscoru• Banishment, fill the vast Country of Abyssinia, and many other Countries, in Divisions from other Churches, and Opposition to the Council of Calc•d•n.
And did the Monothelites do so much harm, by saying, that Christ might be said to have but One Will and Operation, (by Concord, called One) as all the Councils and Bishops did, by their condemning and prosecuting them, till the Imperial Churches were by it broken all to pieces?
And did the three Words in the Writings of Theodor•t, Ib•• and Theodore Mopsuest, do so much hurt, as the Councils that condemned these Tri• Capitula did, by woeful Divisions?
Or did they, that Justinian called Corrupticolae, do more hurt, than he did, by murdering thousands, and wasting Egypt, and other Countries, by his blind Zeal against Heretics? Surely there is no Comparison in the hurt.
Epipha•ius himself recordeth how much hurt Hereticating Heat did, against Audius and others called Heretics: And Lucifer Calaritanus was made a Heretic, for his inordinate Zeal against the Arians themselves. And I think few now doubt, but the blind Zeal of Epiphanius himself, and of Cyril Alexand; and the Council that condemned Chrysostom, as if he were not hot enough against Origin, did a great deal more harm than good: And that Atticus and Pr•clus, by their Indulgence to the Joanites, ⟨p. 54⟩were fain to heal the Wounds that those mens Heats had made. And more than Socrates and Zozomene tell us, that the said Atticus and Proclus did the Church more Service, against the Novatians, by Gentleness and Liberty, than their Predecessors ever did by their zealous Fierceness.
And being banished, set up so great a Party in Syria, and other Countries, to this day, called Nestorians, as continue the abhorrence of the Council of Calc•don and Ephesus, and the Church of Rome, and the great Divisions of the Christian Church, Would the tolerating of the accused Phrase have done so much Hurt as this?
And did the Bishops and Councils, that condemned his Adversaries, Eutiches and Dioscorus, ⟨p. 53⟩and banished him that was the second Patriarch of the East, do less hurt to the Church, than it would have done, to have patiently instructed them in what sence Christ's Nature remained Two, and to have granted, that in other sence and respe•t, they might be called One, as agreeing and united? When now the Eutychian Jacobites, by Dioscoru• Banishment, fill the vast Country of A•a•sia, and many other Countries, in Divisions from other Churches, and Opposition to the Council of Calc•d•n.
And did the Monothelites do so much harm, by saying, that Christ might be said to have but One Will and O•eration, (by Concord, called One) as all the Councils and Bishops did, by their condemning and prosecuting them, till the Imperial Churches were by it broken all to pieces?
And did the three Words in the Writings of Theodor•t, Ib•• and Theodore Mopsuest, do so much hurt, as the Councils that condemned these Tri• Capitula did, by woful Divisions?
Or did they, that Justinian called Corrupticolae, do more hurt, than he did, by murdering thousands, and wasting Aegyp•, and other Countries, by his blind Zeal against Hereticks? Surely there is no Comparison in the hurt.
Epipha•ius himself recordeth how much hurt Hereticating Heat did, against Audius and others called Hereticks: And Luci•er Calaritanus was made a Heretick, for his inordinate Zeal against the Arrians themselves. And I think few now doubt, but the blind Zeal of Epiphanius himself, and of Cyril Alexand; and the Council that condemned Chrysostom, as if he were not hot enough against Origin, did a great deal more harm than good: And that Atticus and Pr•clus, by their Indulgence to the Joanites,
