(2.06) fhorter than Socrates )' Theophilur not knowing elfe how to be revenged, fet the Monks agáinfl him and his Brethren, and accufeth them ofhold- ing contrary to the Scripture, that God had no body, hands, or feet, and fo taketh on him to be of their opiniontili hehad Cet them altogether by the cars : And the ignoranter Monks being the greater number he took their fide, and fo they went fah to it by zealous reproaches, one part calling the other Originc/fr, and the other part calling them Anthropomorphites, and at all it came to a deadly Battel. And, faith Socrates, 7heopbílus per- ceiving, that his fetchesframed after his will went with great power towards the Mount Nitria, oidtere there religions bottlesftood, and aided the Monks ágainff Diolcorus and his Eretbren : And the Religious men thus befit with great danger had much ado to fave their lives. ] Socr. 1.6. c. 7. Did ever Presbyterians commit loch as unchritlian and inhumane vi- lany as this, by Cuch fàlfe diilìmulation and malice ? And here we fee how the quarrel began againtl Origens Works, not for the paffages that are truely c4ilpable, but for the founder parts ; and how it came topars that Chryfoflime was not fo forward to condemn them as his Condemners did require him to be. Theodora. lib. 4. ¡lift Fccl. c. 13. T clls us that when theEmperour Va- lens his order was brought to Eufbius Samofatenus for his removal and ba- nifhment, Eufebius tells the Officer, That if the People (hould know it, they would drown:him in the River(Euphrates ) and therefore contrived to flip away by night.] What would they fay, if our Churches were fuchas this orthodoxEpifcopal Church was? Theodor.lib. 3.c. 13. The Virgins openly fung in reproach ofJulian the Etperour [Rate ilium confieleratum tyrannum contentnendum effe omni- um irrifione ludendum ] judging that wicked Tyrant to be contemned and made a mocking flock by all. And yet he was a lawful Emperour and none oC the crueflefl Perfecutors. Theodor. 1.3. c. 13. When the People of his Church had found out Ett- .febitrs their banifhed Bithop, they earnefily perfwaded him to return, con- trary to the Emperors Edid, and not to futfer his flock to be left to the Wolves ( which werethe Bithops feu over them by the Emperour). And is not this more than the people are now condemned for., who on- ly hear the Minifters privately ? Cap. 14. When the Emperors Arrian Bithop was let over them, not one of all the People, rich or poor, fervant or labourer, husbandman or Artificer, manor woman, young or old, would come as theyufed to the Church,nor come in fight of theBithop,nor fpeak with hima.ut though he lived very modeflly, he came to the Church .(place) alone. They would not bathe with him nor bathe in the fame water , . but throw it frft into the Channel; when he left the City (this was'Eunomius). Do our hearers deal as harshly as uhi? ? Afterward when Lucius was fet over them, the Children in the [treat.; burn their ball, becaufe his Arles feet had touched it, - Id.
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