( ' [ 2 47 ] bell: of yopr Six Councils than Eufebius and Con:. jl-A-ntine faid of thein/ when he burnt their accufing Libels againfi each other? · 2. What fay I worfeof the firfi Council at Con– Pantinople than GreJ!,. Na:z..ianz..cn faith? I do but recite his words and the Hiftory? Did they not.fee him up in the beginning, and pull him down at the end? (and for what)? 3· What fay I of the firH Ephef. Council but what the recorded Aets do tell us ? How they di– vided into two Parts, and 'each Excommunicated the Leaders of the other , and the Orthodox Pare fought with the other notwithfl:anding the Endea– vours of the Emperor's Lieutenant to haye kept the Peace ; and yet when they had gone, found that they had been of one ' Mind, apd knew it nor , (except Neftorius. ) And how much hand a Wonian had in it againfi · him ; the Hifiory , cells us. 4· Have I fa id (o much againfi .that at Chalcedon as the many Councils that anathematized them did ? or .more than they faid of themfelves when they cried OmneJ Peccavimus for Voting wirh Dio& fcorus and the Eutychians at Council Eph. 2. I would fain know, when as the greater Pa1}t of the Empire and Church was againfi 'this Council, in the days ofZeno, Bafilifcu; , and Anaftajim , by what means every Chrifiian fbould then have known the fence of the Univerfal Church. At 1eru{alem the -Orthodox rebellioufly 'i·efified the , Emperor's L~eptenants , and put them to flight in defence of this Council (forlm'ving a Monk that compared the four Councils to the four Evange– lifts) and fent the Emperor word that ·they would - fpend their Blood for it : And yet even there, be- · R 4 · for~
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