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The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended…
The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to show their dangerous error, who think that a general council, or college of bishops, is a supreme governor of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entitled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to shew their dangerous errour, who think that a general council, or colledge of bishops, is a supream governour of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entituled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
De Concil. Ephes. p. 180, 181. Excesserant jam è vivis sancti Patres, & illi optimi Episcopi, S. Ambrosius, S. Martinus, S. Hieronymus, S. Augustinus (qui eo ipso anno quo Synodus coacta est mortuus est) S. Hilarius, S. Eusebius & similes; eorumque loco prorsus dissimiles patres suborti fuerant. Ita ut Imperator Theodosius amplius eligi Episcopum C. P. ex Sacerdotibus vel Clericis Civitatis C. P. nollet: hanc ob causam quod plerumque essent superbi, ambitiosi, morosi, qui movere certamina, & tumultus in Ecclesiis plerumque tolerent.—p. 182. Cumjam videret Nestorius tantas turbas ortas ex corruptela multiplici, gemens prorupit in haec verba, Tollamus è medio omnes ambiguitates quae primum praebuerunt occasions istis certaminibus, & fateamur palam Mariam recte vocari Matrem Dei. Sed nihil profecit Nestorius, ne tunc quidem eum ⟨p. 176⟩revocaret suum errorem; sed voce publica conde m•atus, ex orbe Imperii universo ejectus & explosus est: Quanquam illi duo Episcopi Antiochenus & Alexandrinus, etiam post Concilium cum rediissent in suas Ecclesias, see ipsi mutuis convitiis lacerabant, & omnibus diris devovebant: Etsi postea res ad placidum exitum deducta est: Quanquam tamen dolendum hoc, & effusis lachrymis deplorandum in Ecclesia est, tam praestantes viros adeo indulsisse suis affectibus, ut instar mulierum aut puerorum ineptissime inter se rixarentur. Omnino suisset eis opus aliquo Constantino, qui ipsorum jurgia & contentiosa scripta etiam conjecisset in ignem.—p. 184. Mentioning the false accusations of Nestorius, making two Persons, &c. [Atque adeo intricata & confusa sunt quae scribunt, ut existimem ne quidem ipsos scire in hunc usque diem, quid & propter quas causas damnaverint Nestorium. Hoc inde conjicito. Fatentur credidisse Nestorium quod Christus sit Deus & Homo—exhis certum est quod Nestorius non crediderit Christum esse purum hominem.—Constat Nestorium non duos sed unum Christum credidisse, id quod ipsorum verba testantur—ideoque non potuit credere esse duas personas. Nec ullibi reperitur in historiis quod Nestorius unum Christum crediderit habere duas personas, nisi quod Pontifices & corum historiae it a argutantur.
De Concil. Ephes. p. 180, 181. Excesserant jam è vivis sancti Patres, & illi optimi Episcopi, S. Ambrosius, S. Martinus, S. Hieronymus, S. Augustinus (qui eo ipso anno quo Synodus coacta est mortuus est) S. Hilarius, S. Eusebius & similes; eorumque loco prorsus dissimiles patres suborti fuerant. Ita ut Imperator Theodosius amplius eligi Episcopum C. P. ex Sacerdotibus vel Clericis Civitatis C. P. nollet: hanc ob causam quod plerumque essent superbi, ambitiosi, morosi, qui movere certamina, & tumultus in Ecclesiis plerumque tolerent.—p. 182. Cumjam videret Nestorius tantas turbas ortas ex corruptela multiplici, gemens prorupit in haec verba, Tollamus è medio omnes ambiguitates quae primum praebuerunt occasiones istis certaminibus, & fateamur palam Mariam recte vocari Matrem Dei. Sed nihil profecit Nestorius, ne tunc quidem eum