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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
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LXXXII. Even Great Gregory called a Synod against the dissenting Bishops, and they not obeying his summons, the Bishop of Aquileia was ruined (the Western Head) Sabinian that succeeded Gregory would have had his Books burnt. Boniface the third got Phocas the Murderer to declare Rome the Chief Bishops Seat (He to whom Greg. had sung Laetentur coeli, & exult et terra, &c.)
LXXXIII. Next rose up the Monothelite Controversy, Cyrus Bishop of Alexand. to end the Controversies aforementioned, was told that to use the word [Dei virilis operatio & voluntas] would unite them all, which past as satisfaction in a Council at Alexand. P. Honorius persuaded them to silence [One] and [Two.]
LXXXIII. Next rose up the Monothelite Controversie, Cyrus Bishop of Alexand. to end the Controversies aforementioned, was told that to use the word [Dei virilis operatio & voluntas] would unite them all, which past as satisfaction in a Council at Alexand. P. Honorius persuaded them to silence [One] and [Two.]
But this Counsel was rejected, and now whether Christ had [One or Two Wills and Operations, became as de fide, the new War of the Bishops through the world. Some were for [One] and some for [Two] as if [Will and Operation, and One or Two] were words that had but one signification; When every Novice in Philosophy must grant that Christ's Will and Operation in some sense, was but One, and in other senses Two, as I have proved. But Sergius Bishop of Const. set it on foot, Heraclius being for it, and Pyrrhus his Successor followed it on. And Sergius by a ⟨p. 35⟩Council of Bishops at C. P. decreed for [One Will.]