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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 6
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§. 76. Evagrius (lib. 3.) saith, that Justin came to the Empire as followeth: Amantius was one of the Greatest men, but uncapable of the Empire, because he was an Eunuch: He gave a great sum of Money to Justine, to hire the Soldiers to choose Theocritus, his bosom friend: Justine with that Money hired them to choose himself, and quieted Amantius and Theocritus, by murdering them both. And because Vitalianus (that had usurped and laid down,) was then great, he drew him in to be a Commander near him, and so got him killed. But he becometh Orthodox, and saith Binnius, p. 374. The great Patron and Defender of the Catholics, by the singular favour of God obtained the Empire. So zealous was he, that he caused the tongue of Severus the Eutychian, Archbishop of Antioch, 1to be pulled out of his head, for cursing so oft the Council of Calcedon, and such like things. Paulus succeeded him and dyed, and Euphrasius succeeded him, who was buried in the ruins of the City▪ 2it being cast to the ground by a terrible Earthquake, and the remnant burnt with fire from Heaven, in the lightning that went with the Earthquake.3 But Euphremius Lieutenant of the East, did so charitably relieve the People, that in reward they chose him for their Bishop. Reader, Was not a Bishopric then grown a considerable preferment, when the Emperors Lieutenant of the East took it for such, even to be Bishop of a City that lay on heaps?
§. 76. Evagrius (lib. 3.) saith, that Iustin came to the Empire as followeth: Amantius was one of the Greatest men, but uncapable of the Empire, because he was an Eunuch: He gave a great sum of Money to Iustine, to hire the Souldiers to choose Theocritus, his bosom friend: Iustine with that Money hired them to choose himself, and quieted Amantius and Theocritus, by murdering them both. And because Vitalianus (that had usurped and laid down,) was then great, he drew him in to be a Commander near him, and so got him killed. But he becometh Orthodox, and saith Binnius, p. 374. The great Patron and Defender of the Catholicks, by the singular favour of God obtained the Empire. So zealous was he, that he caused the tongue of Severus the Eutychian, Archbishop of Antioch, 1