A27054:581
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.
§. 25. And Derodon hath also proved that Cyril (and so the Eutychians) when they called them [One] did mean [One person] mistaking the sense of the word [Nature] and meaning by [Nature] the same that the Orthodox meant by [Person]. And so the opening of two words, would have ended all their Controversy, and proved that they meant the same thing and knew it not; that is, 1. distinguishing between [One undivided] and [One undistinguished]. 2. Opening what they meant by Nature and Person: But, alas, this was no work for those famous General Councils, but to cry out [Anathema to Nestorius, Anathema to Eutyches, Anathema to Dioscorus; Holy Leo, Holy Cyril, &c.] these were their arguments. And Dioscorus as bad as his adversaries or worse, excommunicated Leo the Bishop of Rome, and went the Anathematizing way: And so much of Religion was placed in cursing one another, that there were scarce any Bishops in the world that were not cursed by one another.
§. 25. And Derodon hath also proved that Cyril (and so the Eutychians) when they called them [One] did mean [One person] mistaking the sense of the word [Nature] and meaning by [Nature] the same that the Orthodox meant by [Person]. And so the opening of two words, would have ended all their Controversie, and proved that they meant the same thing and knew it not; that is, 1. distinguishing between [One undivided] and [One undistinguished]. 2. Opening what they meant by Nature and Person: But, alas, this was no work for those famous General Councils, but to cry out [Anathema to Nestorius, Anathema to Eutyches, Anathema to Dioscorus; Holy Leo, Holy Cyril, &c.] these were their arguments. And Dioscorus as bad as his adversaries or worse, excommunicated Leo the Bishop of Rome, and went the Anathematizing way: And so much of Religion was placed in cursing one another, that there were scarce any Bisops in the world that were not cursed by one another.
§. 26. VI. And the difference between the Greeks and Latins about the words [hypostases & Personae] had almost come to the same extremity: When Hierome himself that liked •ot [three hypostases] was accused of heresy, and was fain to fly to his baptismal Creed for refuge, and to prove that he was a believer because he was baptized. But