C 7s but as of great antiquity, and agreeing with the primitive pra Life. This courte much diffe- reth from the ordaining of a Biíhop at an hun- dred miles diftance from his Church ; Yea . ordaining him, not in or to a particular Church, but to many hundred Churches when the peo- ple neither know him nor are prefent, and yet the quettion's askt as if they were. And as the people had ever a chufing or a free confenting Voice, fo they oft received Biíhops and Presby- ters who were ordained by filch as were out- cab, Nonconformifts, and banifhed both by Emperours and Synods; as in manymore inftanr ces might be proved : As alto that they adhered to the Paftors fo chofen, notwithstanding their ejelions by the Imperial Power ,; yea and by fuch Councils as they thought to be unjuft ; as the fad divifions by the difplacings, reftorings, and changes ofBifhops by the Councils of Con- f alah ople, Y. Epheju3, . &Cale. don and by the Emperours in thofe times, do fully prove, the people following fome one, and fome another ; though fear oft prevailed for conformity with the greater part. (And no wonder when fo ma- ny Bifhops at the Council of Calcedon profeffed that for fear they had judged againft Flaviunus for Er4tichus againft their confciences, and even old Ous, and many more at Ariminum did the like ; and when the powers changed,cryed,Om- iespeccavi.nus ; and when under Theodofik 2d. fo many went one way, who under Martian went another way, even in point ofHerefie, When Mavia the Saracen f ! een chofe .Mo- fes a Monk to be her Bifnop, as the condition of her peace with the Roman Empire, MoJc would noc
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