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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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3. If one should in our Pulpits say ordinarily▪ [The World was Created by Man:] The eternal proceeding of the Holy Ghost was from a Man: Flesh and Blood was from Eternity;] many sound Christians would not like it. And yet it's true in the Communicative sense, viz. [He that is now man made the world as God: The Holy Ghost eternally proceeded from the 2d Person in the Trinity who is now God and Man: Christ who was flesh and blood on Earth, was Eternal as God.] So if one now say [God was confined to the Virgins Womb, and to the Manger: God could not speak in the Infancy of Christ: God was but about 30 year old when Christ was Baptized: God knew not the day nor the hour of Christs second coming: God was asleep, hungry, sorrowful, in an agony, crucified, dead, buried, &c.] All this is thus far true, viz. Of Christ who was God, not as God but as man: And yet if I should deny but the fitness of this speaking, I were just such an Heretic as Nestorius was: And many that are no Heretics for all that would not relish it.
3. If one should in our Pulpits say ordinarily▪ [The World was Created by Man:] The eternal proceeding of the Holy Ghost was from a Man: Flesh and Blood was from Eternity;] many sound Christians would not like it. And yet it's true in the Communicative sense, viz. [He that is now man made the world as God: The Holy Ghost eternally proceeded from the 2d Person in the Trinity who is now God and Man: Christ who was flesh and blood on Earth, was Eternal as God.] So if one now say [God was confined to the Virgins Womb, and to the Manger: God could not speak in the Infancy of Christ: God was but about 30 year old when Christ was Baptized: God knew not the day nor the hour of Christs second coming: God was asleep, hungry, sorrowful, in an agony, crucified, dead, buried, &c.] All this is thus far true, viz. Of Christ who was God, not as God but as man: And yet if I should deny but the fitness of this speaking, I were just such an Heretick as Nestorius was: And many that are no Hereticks for all that would not rellish it.
Either▪ my Eyes could not find that in Nestorius which he affirms of him or else he is a mere slanderer of him, when he aith Pag. 193 that he denied Yea obstinately] that Mary was the Mother of that Person who was God.] He hath produced no such word. That which he stood to was, that instead of saying Mary was the Mother of God, we should say she was the Mother of Christ who is God and Man. And of the unity of Person I have cited already his own words so fully, as moved Derodon to say [I dare boldly say, no Christian hath hitherto spoken trulyer and plainer of the unity of Christs Person in two natures than Nestorius] And that it's false that he confessed but an union of dignity the same cited words show: Nexu adeo sublimi (saith he) Divinoque & admirabili (mentioning the conjunction of the Divinity and humanity) ut Divina natura ea sibi vendicet quae Corporis alioquin sint propria] Epist. ad Cyril.