(_98 ) were not forced into theChurch,) Socrates brandeth Cyril of Alexandria *Th cphi. ? for the firft Prelate that ufed the íword and what workdid he make lus big si with it ? . He invaded a hind of fecular Magiftracy. He fet himfelf a- flersf n and gainft the Governour Oretles, and under his fhadow thofe bloodymurthers fneCe 'r were committed on the 'ewes, who allo killed manyof the Chriftians. TheMonks; of MountNpltra role to the number of 500, and affaulted the civil Governour and wounded him ; and Amanius who did it was put to death by Orefler: andCyril made a Marts r of him; till being afhamed of ir, he fuffered hismemorial to be abolifhed. And when Flypatiaa moil excellent woman.of the Heathens, was famous for her publick teaching of Phylofophy, Peter, one of Cyrils Readers became the head of a party of that Church, whowatched the woman, and dragg'd her out of a Coach into a Church, fiript her of her cloaths, and tore her flefh with (harp (hells, till they killed her, and then tore her members in prices, and carried them to aplace called Cynaron and' burned them, for which we read of no pu- nifhtpent executed, Soceat. lib. 7. c. 13.14, 15. And it was this S.Cyril who deprived theNovatians of their Churches, and took away all theSc.'. cret treafureof them, and fpoiied the Bithop Tbeopompue of all his for- tunes, Socrat.l. 7. C. 7. What his Nephew and Succeffor 7beopbilus wasand did, you have heard before and (hall hear more anon. What the ancient Chriftians thought of ufing the (word againti Here ticks (though they compelled them not to the Church and Sacrament) a- ny man,that readeth their Writings may fee, viz.Tertullian, Arnobius, La- canther and abundance more. And thecafe of S. Martin towards Itbaci- us and Idacius, I have oft enoughrepeated : Only I cannotbut note the im- prdcncy ofBellarmine, whode Scriptor. Ecclef. de Idacio (fallly making Idaci- . vs to be the famewith Itbacius, whenhe was but one of his affociates) doth tell us that Macias fell under the reprehenbon and punilbment of the Bithops (in co reprehenfus.&. punitus ab Epifcopiefuit, gttod Peifcilliantunt aped fe- culares accufaverit &occidi euraverit] whereas Sulpitius Severas, telleth us, that all theEiihops of the Synod joyned with them, and one S. Marty, and one FrenchBithop more difowned and refufed them, and Martin would have noCommunion with them to the death (fave that onceat the Enr- perours perfwalion heCommunicated with them to fave a prifoners life, which was given him on that condition, andyet waschaffifed by an An- gel even for that.) And Ambrofe at Milan alto difowned them (as you may read in his life); and when the deed was done, the Chriftians fpake ill of Itbacius and Idaciur for-takingthat new and bloodyway, which be- fore the Churches commonly difowned, but they pretended that they did notcaufe.this execution. And 'the fame Sulpitius tells you, that when this new way of reeking to the Emperour, was left fet on foot byMacias and his Synodifis, the Prifcillianitis quickly got the handle of the (word, and by a Courtier got even Gratian to be on their fidaagaintltheBi(hops. And
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