their Councils abridged, z79 Church Communion to Bardas Cefar for his reported Adultery , he provoked that indignation in himwhichdepofed him. Bardas firft per- fwaded theEmperor Michael to affume the Government and not leave the Empire any longer to his Mother and Sifters. One Gebo then pre- tending tobe the Son of Queen Theodora, and claiming the Crown, and many following him , Ignatius is accufed as being then on Gebo's fide, The Emperor commandeth Inatizu to fhear his Mother and Sifters , and put them into a Monaftery : He refufeth: The Emperor is angry and fufpetting him, caufeth it to be done by others, and fendeth Igna- tius to the Ifland Terebinth and killeth Gebo. "Within three dales fome "of the Bijhops who hadfubfcribed and (worn to Ignatius, even that they "would fooner deny the fupream Majefly of the Trinity, than without a "publick damnation they would fatter their Pallor to be depofed, Ìeeame "agents to draw him to renounce his Place. &c. He refufzng, Photins_is "made one day a Monk, the next day a Leftor, the next a Subdeacon , "the next a Deacon , the next a Presbyter, and on Chrifis birth-day is "made Patriarch; a great and noble Courtier, the Emperors Secretary or "privyCouncellor, famousfor skill in thingspolitickand civil , foflourifh: "ing in the skill of Grammar, Poetry, Oratory, Philofophy, Phyfick, and theflied, of almoft all Liberal Arts andSciences, as thathe was abfoloete- ""ly an them the Prince ofhis age, yea, and mightcontend wickthe ancients. " For he had a confluence of natural aptitude andforce, offelicity, riches, "by which he got a library of allfortsof books; and being defzrous ofGlory "and Praife, (pent whole nights in fleeplefrStudies, and after fludieddivi "nity, and Eccleffical Volumes, Gregorius Bithop of Syracure (a cenfur- "ed B:fhop) ordainedhim: Ignatius is cruelly ailed; and its laid on Photi- "us : Hefendeth fome B(hops to Rome, and by them faith, that Ignatius "gave up bis Place. It's laid that. Come held Ignatius's, hand , and by force wrote his mark, and others wrote the rett: but what's the truth is hard to know. AGeneral Council is called: The Emperor and all his Princes, great ones, and almoft all the-City met at Photiaz's poffeffi- on. Baanes and fome of the baler of the Romans are lent to fummon Ig- nacio to the Council, (Bin, ,p. 867.) He asketh them in what Garbs he (hall come. "They take time and t7se next day fay, Rhòdoaldus and "Zacharias Legates of Old Rome by usAmmon thee without delay to ap, "pear at theholy Oecumenical Councilin what habit those wilt according to thy own Confcience. He goeth in Patriarchs habit. The Emperor com- mands him in the habit ofa Monk. No lets than feventy two wirneffes are brought into the Synod againft him, Nobles and Vulgar; Nicetas faith perjured, of whom Leo and Theodotacias two Noble men were chief; and fome Anabaptifts (that is, fuch as baptized men agaia, though not againft Infant Baptifm.) There fwore that Ignatius,not jufily ordained, had twelve years ago ufurped the place. And alas 1 there wanted not a Canon which would depofe a great part of the Bithops of the world, viz. that called the 3oth, Apoft. and oft renewed. If
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