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§ 2. So hot was Justinian in this Error, ¹that he ejected Eutychius that resisted him at Constantinople, saith Niceph. l. 17. c. 29. Julianus Halicarnas. and Gainas raised this, holding that Christ's hunger, thirst and suffering, were all immediately voluntary, and not as ours by natural necessity. They said that as we all hold Christs Body incorruptible after his resurrection, so did they before it, yet consubstantial with ours. The Orthodox distinguished of Corruption:

§ 2. So hot was Iustinian in this Error, ¹that he ejected Eutychius that resisted him at Constantinople, saith Niceph. l. 17. c. 29. Iulianus Halicarnas. and Gainas raised this, holding that Christ's hunger, thirst and suffering, were all immediately voluntary, and not as ours by natural necessity. They said that as we all hold Christs Body incorruptible after his resurrection, so did they before it, yet consubstantial with ours. The Orthodox distinguished of Corruption:

1. 1Some late Historians tell us of incredible numbers of the Egyptian Christians whom Jastinian destroyed in this blind zeal for Christ, but I find no such thing in the old Historians though it was too bad.Some late Historians tell us of incredible numbers of the Egyptian Christians whom Iastinian destroyed in this blind zeal for Christ, but I find no such thing in the old Historians though it was too bad.

1. Blameless Passions of Hunger, Thirst, Weariness, &c. 2. Dissolution of the Bodies Elements. The first they said Christ was subject to before the Resurrection, but not after (nor we:) The later not at all. The Heretics that held the contrary, were called the Aphthartodocitae, saith Nicephorus, [Quá multi mortales correpti sunt, non solum ex eis qui honores & magistratus gesserunt, sed eitam Hierarchae primarii, & Monachi vitâ illustres, & ex sacerdotali ordine alii, ut ipse Imperator Justinianus.] The Hereticators and Damners are divided about Justinian's soul and name; some place him yet in Heaven, and others in Hell. If it be true that Nicephorus saith of him, my Vote should go against the Damners, viz. [Nil tale de Christo propter summum ipsius erga illum amorem & desiderium audire constituerit: Princeps etenim iste tanto in Christum pietatis ardore flagrasse, ab eis qui res illius memoriae posteritati mandarunt, dicitur, quanto alius, qui ante eum imperium obtinuerunt, nemo, termaximo illo Constantino semper excepto: Itaque propter vehementem in Christum amorem illius gratiâ multa etiam violenter fecit, &c. And if it came from vehement love to Christ, all I will say is, 1. Let him that is without Error, be the first in damning him. 2. But it was just with God to leave him to be numbered with Heretics, who was so blindly zealous in executing the Sentences of Hereticating Prelates: (The Case of Nestorius, and many others before.)