Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§. 42. But now Zeno the Emperor dyeth, and Anastatius Dicorus is chosen Emperor. Nicephorus, lib. 16. c. 25. saith, that he being a man of peace, and desiring the ceasing of Contentions, followed Zeno's Henoticon, and left all to their liberty to think of the Council as they pleased. Hereupon the Bishops fell into three Parties; some fervent for every word of the Council; some cursing it; and some for the Henoticon or silent peace. The East was one way: the West another: and Libya another. Yea the Eastern Bishops among themselves, the Western among themselves, and the Libyan among themselves, renounced Communion with one another. Nicephor. c. 25. Tanta confusio mentiumque caligo (saith the Historian) orbem universum incessit, (it is not my censure) so great confusion and blindness of mind befell the whole world: This was the Effect even of Liberty.

§. 42. But now Zeno the Emperour dyeth, and Anastatius Dicorus is chosen Emperour. Nicephorus, lib. 16. c. 25. saith, that he being a man of peace, and desiring the ceasing of Contentions, followed Zeno's Henoticon, and left all to their liberty to think of the Council as they pleased. Hereupon the Bishops fell into three Parties; some servent for every word of the Council; some cursing it; and some for the Henoticon or silent peace. The East was one way: the West another: and Lybia another. Yea the Eastern Bishops among themselves, the Western among themselves, and the Lybian among themselves, renounced Communion with one another. Nicephor. c. 25. Tanta confusio mentiumque caligo (saith the Historian) orbem universum incessit, (it is not my censure) so great confusion and blindness of mind befell the whole world: This was the Effect even of Liberty.

§. 43. The Emperor resolving to keep peace did purpose to fall on the most unpeaceable whoever, even on both sides. At Constantinople he put out Euphemius: (as some thought upon a personal dislike or quarrel:) For before his inthornizing they say he had given under his hand to Euphemius a promise that he would stand for the Council; and when he had possession he demanded up his Writing: Euphemius denied it him, and was cast out: Macedonius succeeded him, and got the Writing: The Emperor demanded it also of him; he also denied it: The Emperor would have also put him out: The people rose up in Sedition, and cried, It is a time of Martyrdom, let us all stick to the Bishop: And they reviled the Emperor, calling him a Manichee, and unworthy of the Empire. The Emperor was forced hereby to submit to Macedonius, lest he should have lost all: The Bishop sharply rebuked him as the Churches Enemy. But these things made the Emperor more against the Council, partly as more against him; and when he saw time, he remembered Macedonius, and cast him out: yea he put Timothy in his place, and burnt the Councils Acts. Timothy pulled down the Images of Macedonius. The Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch: and Jerusalem, were all cast out.