• Tke Preface. ~ h1~p ne - , ctirious nd falfe notions ab~nt rhe1n, efp ;i– allYi ab ut the lattqr, as caufed nevv diil:urbantes, and thofe oflarge exter t and long continuance. For their fuppreffion, .Coutl:cels were.called one on the neck of another,_ \V0ereon commonly ne\V occafions of differen.. . ces did ari{e, and mofl: of them managed with great fcandal unto Chrifl:ian Religion. For men began much to forego the Primitive waies of oppofing En·ours:, and extinguifhing _Herefies, betaking thernfelves unto their lnterefr, the nmnber ofth;eir Party, and prevalency with the prefent.Emperors. And although it fo fell out, as in that at Conflanti11opfe, the firfl: ,at Ephefiu, and that at C!Jal– cedon, that the Truth for the fubfl:ance of it did prevail, {for in many others it happened quite othervvife) yet did they alwaies give occafions unto ne\V divifions, anin10"". fides,_ and even. n1~1tual hatreds, a1nong the principal Leaders of the Chrifl:ian People. And great contefts _there were an1ong f01ne of them \Vho pretended to be– lieve the fame Truth, whether fttch OJ." fi1ch a Councel Ih~uld. be received, that is plainly whether the Church lbould\efolve its Faith into their Authority. The il:rifes of t~is ·n4ture about the firfl:' Ephejine Councel, and that ·. at CbalcedO.n,;-' not to tnention ·them wherein the Arians ~prevailed, take.upa good part of the Ecclefiafl:ical fl:ory ofthofe daies ~ And it cannot be denied hut that 'fome ofrh~ principal Perfons and Affen1blies vvho adhered · unto the Truth, did in .the heat of oppolition unto the · ·Her.efies
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