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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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.
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,