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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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CHAP. XXIII. Of the 4th General Council at Calcedon.
§ 1. HE begins his Chapter comically, and notably derideth me for saying Pulcheria was the same that before at Ephesus had set the Bishops against Nestorius. Is this so ridiculous? It's well known that Historians make her very powerful with her Brother: she chose his Wife Eudocia, (They were long of two minds.) It's no wonder that she that got him condemned at Ephesus, got the same further done at Calcedon, when she was Empress her self, having made Martian Emperor, and her nominal Husband, (for they were not conjugally to know each other.) Is there any thing in this that deserveth the stage? Though Theodosius be reproached by Popish Historians ⟨p. 167⟩as an Eutychian, or a favourer of them, if credible honest Socrates may be believed, there have been few such Princes in the World, (for Piety, his House was a Church; for Patience, never seen angry; for Compassion, would never let a man die for Treason-against himself.) But his Sister (a Woman eminent for Wit and Piety) was thought to govern him very much, & specially in the severities against Nestorius. Evagrius who bitterly reproacheth Nestorius, tells us of some writings of his that fell into his hand, in which he saith, that the Emperor was his friend, and would not sign his banishment, and lays the cruelties that he underwent on his Officer: and considering the case of a suffering man, I see nothing unseemly in the Letter to him, which Evagrius chargeth with contempt.
§ 1. HE begins his Chapter comically, and notably derideth me for saying Pulcheria was the same that before at Ephesus had set the Bishops against Nestorius. Is this so ridiculous? It's well known that Historians make her very powerful with her Brother: she chose his Wife Eudocia, (They were long of two minds.) It's no wonder that she that got him condemned at Ephesus, got the same further done at Calcedon, when she was Empress her self, having made Martian Emperour, and her nominal Husband, (for they were not conjugally to know each other.) Is there any thing in this that deserveth the stage? Though Theodosius be reproached by Popish Historians