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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.
But the foulest charge is, that he seems once or twice to distinguish Christ from the Divine Nature. Ans. By [Christ] he expresseth himself to mean the humane nature anointed to his Office: And the man thought that the Divine Nature was not so anointed: and distinguishing is not dividing.
It is not his Nay and my Yea that can inform any Reader what Nestorius said and meant without reading his own words (rather than Cyril's of him.) And if such as Mr. M. will pretend Charity, and contrary to plain evidence face down the world that a Man denieth consequentially Christs God-Head, and the Unity of his Person, while he profest the contrary, no mans innocency is sufficient to escape the fangs of such hereticaters: And let him call me what his list inclineth him to call me, I again profess that on the reading of Cyril, Nestorius, and the Council, and Derodon's Citations, I am quite past doubt that the controversy was Verbal, which of them spake orthodoxly while they both meant the same thing; and when one said Mary was the Mother of God, and the other said, no; She was but the Mother of that Person who is God; the fitness of the phrase was the matter of their quarrel.
It is not his Nay and my Yea that can inform any Reader what Nestorius said and meant without reading his own words (rather than Cyrils of him.) And if such as Mr. M. will pretend Charity, and contrary to plain evidence face down the world that a Man denyeth consequentially Christs God-Head, and the Unity of his Person, while he profest the contrary, no mans innocency is sufficient to escape the fangs of such hereticaters: And let him call me what his list inclineth him to call me, I again profess that on the reading of Cyril, Nestorius, and the Council, and Derodon's Citations, I am quite past doubt that the controversy was Verbal, which of them spake orthodoxly while they both meant the same thing; and when one said Mary was the Mother of God, and the other said, no; She was but the Mother of that Person who is God; the fitness of the phrase was the matter of their quarrel.