C ¡09.) wicked, by their intemperate profecution : Whereupon they fufpeited and accufedhim alfo as an unlearned Fel- low, and a Favourer of the Prifcillianifts. They did not only bring in theufe of the Magiftrates Sword inRe- ligion againff Herefie, which Martin could not bear, but theyowned and flattered an ufurping Emperour, that they might have the helpof his Sword to do their work : So that in all thofe parts of France, Germany, and the Borders of Italy, I find not a Bifhop that refuted to own the Ufurper, fave S. d1m6rofe, and Martin, and one French Bifhop : And Sulpitius Severus tells us that they were men too bad themlelves,, and that upon his know- ledge ithacius the Leader of them fcarce cared what he faid or did. S. Cyril at Alexandria is noted by Socrates as thefirft Bifhop therethat ufedtheSword ; and his Kinfinan S. Theophilus,went beyond him, and took upon him ever to favour the Errour of the Anthroponorphites, that he might have their help againít fuch as he hated, and pro- fécuted Chryfofiom till he had procuredhis ejection, which made a rupture in that Church, and caufed the feparation of his Adherents, whom the Bifhop would have taken', for a new Sel, and called them yoannites ; fuch skill had thedomineering fort of Prelates in making and mul- tiplying Herefies and Sets; and calling themfelves ítili the. Catholick Bifhops becaufe theykept the upper hand, and major Vote, except where the .Arians over-topt- them, who then claimed the Catholick Title to them- fel ves. And bywhat Arts fome of them kept the favour of the Emperours, to do their work and keep up their greatnefs, Socrates tells you in the inftance of the faid,- S. Theophilus, who Pent one before the great Battel .be- tween Theodofiru and Eugenics another Ufurper, with two Letters, and.a rich Prefent, and bid him ftay till the Battel
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