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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
§. 18. But there are abundance of other heresies that I may safely instance in,1 as Philastrius * yea and Epiphanius have described them. I am ashamed to mention some ridiculous heresies in Philastrius, (as calling the stars by the names of living Creatures, and other better.) And divers in Epiphanius are not much worse. But I will speak only of three or four that have made the greatest divisions in the Church.
- 1See what I have recited out of Philastrius in my book against Johnson called [Which is the true Church] in the end.
§. 19. I. Cyprian with his African Councils with Firmilian judging for the re-baptization of those baptized by heretics, was judged a heresy, which their Countrymen the Donatists followed: Yet Augustine saith that Cyprian was no heretic for it. And indeed, it had been but justly distinguishing of men called Heretics, as I before said the Council of Nice did, naming the Paulinists, and all had been ended. But if not, this was no ju•• cause of Excommunication.
§. 19. I. Cyprian with his African Councils with Firmilian judging for the re-baptization of those baptized by hereticks, was judged a heresie, which their Countreymen the Donatists followed: Yet Augustine saith that Cyprian was no heretick for it. And indeed, it had been but justly distinguishing of men called Hereticks, as I before said the Council of Nice did, naming the Paulinists, and all had been ended. But if not, this was no ju•• cause of Excommunication.
§. 20. II. The same I may say of the unhappy Controversy of the time of Easter; about which Victor and Polycrates strove; wherein Irenaeus so much reproveth Victor, as most wise and good men ever since have in their judgements done.