[62] then contrary to the Canons that one CityMoult] have two Bifhops, none queftioned the peoples. right to chufe, nor denied either of them to be true B(hops : And though the Emperour forbore .Paulinvas for his rare parts andvirtues,and banifh- ed only .Meletius,the peoplewould not obey his Orders, but Bill affembled as before. We are not. ,",ignorant what tumults popular Eleftions of , Bifhops have oft caufed : But two things all acquainted with antiquity know which much ferve to counterballance this objeftion I. That Where Emperours and Synods ofBishops have made themfelves the Eleftors,the tumults or confufions, or at leaft the confequent evills were not leis but greater : 2. And when they did thus affume the Eleftion ( which was for the molt part but in a few great feats and not of ordinary Bifhops ) Bill they fuppofe a neceffity of the peoples confent. When the Emperour chofe the Patriarchs,what one Empe- rour did another undid : And the peoples diffent undid it fooner : and the Ruling Bithops fo oft, clifagreed, that their fynods and Churches were lamentably militant. By the favour oftheEmpe- rour, a fcoras was the ftrongeft at .Epeefags having the Souldiers and Rulers on his fide, anti_ by them the Major Vote of the Bifhops : But it was more 77.,odoßis and his Officers that carryed it than equity; even to the condemning of Euj buts and fzch others, and the beating of Flavianas the Patriarchof ConJt, unto death : And when by the Emperour and prevailing ,Bifhops will,new Bishopswere placed (An4tcl es at Con, t. Maxims at Antioch, Noniit at Ede/%, . tbanali4s for Stviii; (m ; c )faith Liberates 6rßviaria
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