Monotheletism, a heresy from a Biblical and Reformed point of view?

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Aco

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What can be exegetically taken or deduced from the Scriptures concerning the issue of Mono-/Dyotheletism? Is there a Reformed Confession that goes into that issue? The Council Constantinople II 680 condemns it as heresy on the bases that the Will is derived from Nature, therefore Christ had two Wills, one divine the other human.

Are there more recent Reformed theologians who go more in-depth on that issue?
 
Heinrich Bullinger rejected monothelitism in the Second Helvetic Confession:

We acknowledge, therefore, that there are in one and the same Jesus Christ our Lord two natures, the divine and the human nature; and we say that these two are so conjoined or united that they are not swallowed up, confounded, or mingled together, but rather united or joined together in one person, the properties of each nature being safe and remaining still: so that we worship one Christ our Lord, and not two; I say, one true God and man; as touching His divine nature of the same substance with the Father, and as touching His human nature of the same substance with us and “like unto us in all things, sin only excepted” (Heb. 4: 15).
As, therefore, we detest the heresy of Nestorius, which makes two Christs of one, and dissolves the union of the person; so do we curse the madness of Eutyches and of the Monothelites or Monophysites who overthrow the propriety of the human nature.​

James T. Dennison Jr., Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation
 
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