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an infant be God ? What was born of the Virgin was Surely man . The truly orthodox tongue will exclaim * bold presump- * tion of carnal reason P Of course the offender was opposed . " In all the pride of conscious rectitude Cyril meets him , and hurls at his head the most convincing of all arguments , twelve anathemas * But , alas ! for the obstinacy of the human will , not even this converted the rationalist . Other means must be taken .
Accordingly Cyril bribes one of the Emperor ' s eunuchs , obtains the favour of the monarch , Theodosius II , gets a council called * and by management and court-influence procures a decree deposing Nestorius , and declaring that the hypostatical union , as it was afterwards called , of the logos with both the body and soul of the man Jesus , took place at the moment of conception . This delicate question being thus decided , of course not only the man ,
but the God , Christ Jesus , was born of Mary . With greater consistency therefore than belongs to many of these venerable assemblies , the council of Ephesus , —hear it Protestants and obey !—the third general council decreed that the Virgin deserved to be honoured as a supplement to the Trinity , under the title , at least as scriptural as that of the Trinity , of Theotokos , that is , mother of God .
Five days after this decision rationalism was again triumphs ant . A council was held , —Cyril this creed condemned .: — - Three years elapse , and Cyril by bribes has gained once more the ascendancy ; but only so far as to procure the banishment of Nestorius , his rival , while he was compelled , notwithstanding all his efforts , honest and dishonest , to the contrary , to set his hand to the declaration that Christ is one substance in two natures .
The question was still discussed ; another agitator , Eutyches , appeared . The unity of Christ ' s nature he ceased not to promulgate . Called before a council he endeavoured to evade ar public examination . Not succeeding , he appeared accompanied by a military guard . He was required to curse all those who said there was but one nature in Christ : this he refused , and affirmed that
his doctrine was that of Athanasius and the Nicene Fathers . Notwithstanding his military precautions he was degraded from the priesthood and excommunicated from the church . To-settle the question a council was convened ( 449 ) at Ephesus . After most disgraceful proceedings , the members of it denounced the heresy of the two natures , and accompanied their decree with the
wish—* that those who divide Christ may be divided by the sword , may be hewn in pieces and burnt alive . ' Leo , the Bishop of Rome , now interfered , and became the champion of pros * trate and outraged orthodoxy . Calling a council in the West , he denounced the proceedings and annulled the decrees of that in the East ; and not satisfied with this he convoked a general council . , Theodoaius the emperor had died . JSis successor was not like
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Rise and Progress of the Doctrine of the Trinity . B&t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/33/
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