C A. p.$. J evelationofthe Apocalypfe. 173 And the thirdpart ofthe Sea became blood. A fecond effect is, the corruption of Doltrine,and the dying of the creatures in theSea. Tl:e Doi'trine is turned into blood,that is, into a quite degenerate nature ; Before indeed it began to be foul, and thick, when it was defiled withmany fuperftitions, but after that the defire of`Prince -hoof, and Primacy was mingled together with ir, it wa3 changed into a certain hatefull blood. Now what this thirdpart is , the FIifory Bothopen evidently. Iu the former Trumpets blaft , the Eaf was thicken withHail, now the well is plagued with bloody waters, as Egypt was of old. Now w. s Rome to play her part, whb not convent with the primacy of order, which the NiceneFathers had given her, firove as much as (he could to challenge to her Elf,/ primacy alfo of poWer over all, 411.Cfeunto fhe had many opportunities about the rel 'c. It was the principnll City of old , and of late , it had that prejudice ofthe Nicene Decree to lift it up, it eñjoyedexceedinggreat e.afe,when as in the *van time the Whole Fail Wu ori°fire With lamentablefire- brands ofmortall diffention,to corclpnde it Was fet. up at aSaniluary for the Orthodox 'Prof e(fors and Teachers When they Were thruft out of their oWn feats, under Whichpretence of defending thefe men, fhe crept sap intothat.Kingdorne, Which before.fhe didfo greedily affeti inheart. For whileft that both thofe exiled Silhops of whom fhe feemed to deferve fo well, did extoll her with a gratefull minde more loftily then was meet-, and (he got and exereifed a certain Empire and domi- nation unawares over all men : which cunning conveyance of hers loth evidently appear in Sozomen, Book, 3. Chap. 8: Athanafituof Alexandria, Paulus of Conftantinople, Marcelluo of Ancyra, andAf- clepa Bithop of Gaza, when they were raft out by their ownmen for protedtions fake fled unto Rome, the defence of whom Iulius the Bithop of Rome did willingly apprehend , neither is that to be re- proved, unlef#e he had from hence made himfelf craftily a ftep to that Tyranny whichhe and his fol'owers exercifed ; For fo he wri. teth to Churches in thefe mens caufe, as if he had, power to com- mand any thing at his abfolute pleafure. Becaufe he held it to belong to his office in regard ofthe iii rnity of the Throne, to take care over all Churches, andBiJlops, he therefore reflored to every oneof thefe Bithops bar oWne Church. But after he had fent abroadhis letters every where through the Fait, full of ImperiallpoWer; (As I Paid) whichhe ar- rogated tohis own Sea,theBiops ofthe E'af,though inother thïngs which they did, and wrote they were not tobe allowed .yet did they this verywell, and according totheir duty, in that they thought it fit
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