2Op Church-.t ory of Bijhops and , .r Ifany Báfhop ufing the fecular power do by them obtain a Church, "let him be depofed.] They left out [And thofe that Communicate with "him] For which Nicetas accufeth the Bifhops as falfy laving them - felves. And alas! mutt all the minifters in England be depofed o that communicate with any Bithop that gets a Church by the fecular power? What a reparation than muft here be made: And would not this Canon depofe Photius alto? The Popes Legates, Bifhops, Rhodo- ccldus and Zacharias, aliique nefurii homines faith Nieetàs, cryed down Ignatius as Vnwerthy; then they beat and odioufly abate the good old man : And then cometh the forefaid forced fubfcribed confeffion (or forged.) After this its Paid that they lent men to kill him; but by old bale cloaths and two baskets on bis back, he pail away unknown, begg- ing his bread by the way. Nicetas faith that an Earthquake (hook the City fourty dayes together, and frightned them to fend abroad' and proclaim fecurity to Ignatius, who thereupon furrendered himfelf. Bardas convinced fendeth him fafe to his own Monaftery,and the Earth. quake ceafed; and the Bulgarians moved by famine and the Emperor's gifts,laid down armes and were baptized Chriftians. Pope Nicholas ex- communicateth Photi's . and the Emperor and all the Court.(Bin.p.868.) A fire befals the Church ofSophia. The young Emperor groweth fo drunken and,prophane that he gets a pack of wicked ungodly men, and maketh them in mockery or play his Bifhops,and confecrateth a Church for them , and maketh one Theophilus a )efter their Patriarch,to turn Religion into a (corn, and then faith [' Theophilus is my Patriarch', "Photius.is Cafars, and Ignatius is the Chriftians.] And thus they by prophane witt derided the Bifhops and Religion itfelf, to which alas, the Bifhops ambition andodious ftrife did tend. Photius was filent at all this. Añother Earthquake frightned them again, the terribleft for a day and a night that had been there known. Upon this one Ba,(ilius a Bifhop ofThefalonica went boldly to the Em- peror and opened the fin of his prophanenefsdifíwadinghim from that wickednefs that provoked God. The Emperor enraged ftruk out his Teeth, and cauled him to be to fcourged that he was like to dye. Pho- tins cared for none of this, fet his mind on the fecuring his feat and op- preffing Ignatius, magnifying all that tooke his part, and encouraging falle Stories and Calumnies againft the belt that were againft him. One of the betrayers and accufers ofIgnatius was one of his Difci- ples, and of his own name, made Arch- Bifhòp of Hierapolis, and then loft his Confcience and Fidelity. ( Bin. p. 869 .) It was but for prefuming to Confecratean Altar, cart down by the Ruffians and newbuilt, whichwas taken after his depofition for breach of the Law and Canons, and twoArch- Bithops, (ready at all times) were fent to pull down the Altar as Nonconformable, and to carry the (tones to the Sea, and wafh them, and then to fet them up again. O that they would have wafht their hearts from Pride and Worldly Ambition ! (p
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