Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 77
hajjs never saw. Of this, many proofs have
Out of many more, which
been already shewn.
might be added if necessary,
one,
I will only produce
that the reader may see the accuracy of his
researches into the works of the Fathers.
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Evagrius the Syrian," says he, " whom
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Photius, a good judge of history, though a
" very bad man, thinks an accurate historian,
" says in his history. Lib. 1. Hist. Cap. 4. that
" the general Council of Ephesus deposed Nes-
" torius, patriarch of Constantinople, by a
" mandate from the Roman PontifF ; but think-
*•
ing the cause of John, patriarch of Antioch,
*'
more doubtful, did not presume to pronounce
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on it, but reserved it for the judgement of
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Pope Celestine himself*."
According to Evagrius, the Councrl declared
themselves induced to the deposition of Nestorius,
" by the authority of the canons, and also
*'
by the letter of our most holy father and fel-
" low-minister, Celestine, bishop of the Roman
''
Church." Did these bishops either view this
letter as a mandate, or acknowledge the supreme
authority of the Pope, when they styled him
merely their fellow-minister, and restricted his
jurisdiction to the See of Rome But this is
the most correct part of his statement. In this
chapter, neither John of Antioch nor his case
are so much as mentioned.
* P. 193-
1 his Council, also,
so