CHAP. XVI. Of Eutiches and his heresie.
EUtiches (whose complices Dioscorus and Seuerus helde the same opinion,) was the Abbot of Constantinople, who,* 1.1 while hee sought to auoid the opinion of Nestorius diuiding one Christ into two sonnes and two persons, fell into another mischiefe, and taught more absurdly then Nestorius, to wit, that Christ had but one onely nature, after the hypostaticall vnion was accomplished, because the humanitie was absorpte of the diuinitie: for so Christs diuinitie vncapeable of all mor∣talitie, was pe••force made partaker of the bitter death vpon the crosse: as therfore Nestorius to auoide the confusion of natures, multiplied the persons; so contrariewise Eutiches, to auoide the multiplicitie of persons, admitted the confusion of natures.
These heretikes, Eutiches, Dioscorus, and Seuerus, were con∣demned by the fourth famous generall councel of Chalcedon, celebrated vnder Ualentinianus and Martianus the Empe∣rours, where were present 360. Bishops.