[z71J not to be their Bifhop while either ofthem lived,' intruded by Perjuries and the Bithops wills)that this Council turned againft Gregory; (and becaufe they chofe him not.) And for peace he quit his P lace ; and many and earneft Epiftles he wrote after to the Civil Magiftrates, to keep the Bi- fhops in peace at the next Councils, left Religion fhouldbe quite fhamed and weakened by them. And was not the contention at the two Councils of Ephefuc more ftigmatized by Hiftorians than this that Gregory fo lamenteth ? when they feem- ed rather to fight, than peaceably to leek for Truth ; in the latter of which Flavianus received his deaths hurt, and the hiftory of thebetter of them between Cyril, and Nefitoripps, and ioloan. Antiochenus, is fad to read. The very! controverfie with its confcquence was lamentable when one Council of Bithops at Conftantinople had caft out excellent Gregory; another neer caft out excellent CJryfoftom, his free fpeech and ftrift life being not endured, and chofe an old ufelefs man Arfaciuc ; Atticus, and Siflius that fucceeded him being dead, the people did fo diflike all the clergy of Canftan tinople, that they would have one like Chryfoftom of a Monaftery by Antioch ; .Ncftorivps a man of . ftudy, retirement, a poor garb, a ftrift life, ab- horring publick contentions, and lovingquietnefs, but of a pievifh zeal againft diífenters called hereticks, as enemies to the Churches unity and peace ; fo that he prefently perfecuted many of them even the Novatians themfelves,and ftirred 'up the Emperour to root them all out, and by Gods juft judgement received fuch meafure as he had meafured, A quarrel arofe whether Saint Mary
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