' ' L of Conftantinople fell out with his own Patriarch, he either put him out, or favoured the prehemi– nence of the Biiliop of Rome to curb him : But ufually his own Biihop being at his command, he favoured ·his Intereft againfi the Roma-n : And it · being the Law of their Councils called (;enera1, that the five Patriarchs mufl: be there, by them– felves,or their Delegates,and the Emperors calling the Councils (upon great occafion.s) they called them in fomeFEaftern City for the moll: part, and the main Body of the Councils were the Greek Biiliops, very few·of. the Weflern being there, nor the Pope himfelfJ nor at C. P. Con£;. I. fo much as any Legate. When the Patriarch of Alexandria, who was ·the third, fell Out with him of Conftantinople, he would extol the Roman Preheminence to fireng– then bimfelf: And when the Eaft had Arian•per– fecucing Emperors and Biiliops, the Orthodox would fly for countenance ·to the ·Orthodox Em– peror and Bifhop in the Weft : But ufually the other four Patriarchs in Councils concurred, and ' the Roman Clergy were a {mall part of their Councils. · But thefe Councils doleful.ly difagreeing, be– came a··church tv1ilitant, and on pretence of agree– ing, the Churches tore them all to pieces, and all upon two occalions: I. \VHO SHOULD ,BE GREATEST, or pleafe the greareft for worldly Interefi? 2. WHO SHOULD PASS FOR ORTHODOX, when after the Arian and Mace– donian Herefies, much of the firife was about am– biguous words: Till at Iafi the Divilion of the Churches, the Degeneracy of the Clergy, the ~Jdnefs ofEmperors, and the Rebellion ofGene- • ,.. / ... rals,
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