( 9$ ) followers of Diofcorti- as the true Bithop injurioufly, fay they, cafe out. Chryfofiome afterwards was cart out of his Patriarchate of confiantinople, by a Synod of Bifhops and the Court. At Rome the -Bithoprick was fuck a prey, that con- tending for it troubled thePublick Peace:At the choice of Darnaf ups they fought it out in theChurch, and his party won that facred Field, leaving manyCarcafres there to the Church -Communionof the dead. But it became thegreat advantage ofRome, that when the Empire was divided, the WefternEmperour proved Orthodox while the Eaflern were oft .Arians : Which kept up the honour of theWeilernBifhops who had not the temptations of the Eaft where sharp perfecutions and the defolation of their Flocks, and the boaff ofthe Arrians as the Major part, that was alto fetled by Au- thority, caufed the ejeted Bifhops fornetime to folicite them of theWeft for help, by (ending them forne to ac- quaint the .Arrians that their Caufe was owned by the Weilern Bithops, or to put fome Countenance on their deprefled Caufe ( and indeed the Weilern Emperour did refcue them.) This occafioneth the Papifts to this day to pretend that this was an Aa of their fubjeFtion to the Pope : St. Bafil was thechief in this folicitation, and you flail read his words (Tranflated.) "Verily the manners of proud men ( fpeaking of the "Weilern Bifhops ) ufe to growmore infolent, if they be " honoured: And if God be merciful to us, whst other ad: GC dition have we need of? but if Gods anger remain on tts, t6 what help can the pride of the weft bring ris ? when they neither know the truth, nor can endure to fpeak it 5 but "being prepoffeffed with falfe fufpicions they da the fame kct thiiags now ívhieh they did in the Cafe of Marcellus, con- ,4 tentioufly
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