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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 3
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§. 20. XXXVI. The next was a Council at Alexandria which vindicated Athanasius from his Accusations, when Constantinus junior sent him home from his Banishment.
§. 21. XXXVII. The next was a Council at Antioch of near 100 Bishops (of which 36 were Arians) the most Orthodox (and the holy James of Nisibis one:) yet they deposed Athanasius, and the Arians (it's like by the Emperors favour) carried it; In his place they put George a Cappadocian suspected to be an Arian, whom, (as I said before) the People murdered, burnt, and scattered his Ashes in the Wind, and he was one of the Arians Martyrs. (Unless England had ever been Arian, I cannot believe them that say that this is the St. George, that the English have so much honoured.)
§. 21. XXXVII. The next was a Council at Antioch of near 100 Bishops (of which 36 were Arians) the most Orthodox (and the holy Iames of Nisibis one:) yet they deposed Athanasius, and the Arians (it's like by the Emperours favour) carryed it; In his place they put George a Cappadocian suspected to be an Arian, whom, (as I said before) the People murdered, burnt, and scattered his Ashes in the Wind, and he was one of the Arians Martyrs. (Unless England had ever been Arian, I cannot believe them that say that this is the St. George, that the English have so much honoured.)
§. 23. This Arian Council finding that the Emperors favour gave them the Power,1 made many Canons against Non-Conformists. The first Can. is against them that keep not Easter at the due time. The second against them that come to the hearing of the Word, but communicate not publicly in the Lords Supper and Prayers, and against them that keep private Meetings, and that communicate with them. Can. 4. Was to make their Case hopeless that exercise the Ministry after they are Silenced, or Deposed, be they Bishops, Priests, or Deacons. Can. 5. Was that if any Priest or Deacon gathered Churches or Assemblies against the Bishops Will, and took not warning, he was to be Deposed: And if he go on, to be oppressed by the exterior Power as Seditious. (There is their Strength.)