[ 6J J fhip at Sea,) to whom the people adhered, who came to petition him for juftice and forbear– ance. Saith Socr. cap. 14. When the Empe- . '~ rour at Edejfa gave the Lieutenant a blow with ''his ftft becaufe he had not fcattered the Conv~n" ticles, as he had chllrged him,, the Lieutenant, "for all this great difgrace, Jet himfolf, though n unwiLlingly t~ obt] the Emperours wrath and ' ' di[pleafure; but gave notice fecret!y of it to th~ " people (for it was far frem his mind to fall a '" murthering fo m11ny godlJ Cztiz..ens,) that none Hfoould jhew his f ace tn the Temple, that none cr jhould be found raijing of any Conventicle: But not " one made account of his advice, 11or regarded his " threats,for the day folLowing all flocf<!d in great "companies to the Temple. Then foJloweth the mention of a· woman that with her little Chfid hafined through the crowd to the meeting hop– ing. to die with the reft. The citizens of Cyz..icum banilhed ·Eunomius from their City, whom Eu– doxius had preferred to that Bilhoprick 1 not fo nmch for hisErrours as for his arrogant and info– lent mftnner ofPreaching, with Legical tricks and fophifms which they could not bear, and fo they drove him to Conjtantinople where he Jayc}. by his Bilhops Office I d. c. 7· And when Eleujius repenting of his fin in a forced fubfcribing to the .Ariminum faith would have had them have chofen another Bilhop,they would have or acknowledg no other but him; being the undoubted Chu(ers of their own Bifhop lb. c. 7· , The City of .Antioch fell into two parties of the Orthodox~befi~es the .Arrians, and chofe two Bdhops Patdinfls and Melet ,·/1s i Though it '~Vas · ·-- then
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