The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…

Eustathius Bishop of Antioch did the like yea came to the Imperial City Constantinople, and there lived in secret to confirm the People and presumed to ordain a Patriarch of that City chosen against the Emperors will: For when Eudoxius was dead, the orthodox people chose Evagrius, a man of their own judgement, and refused Demophilus, Socr. l. 4. c. 13. Both the consecrator and the consecrated Bishop stayed with them till the Emperor sent soldiers from Nicomedia to master the people, and banished them both into several Countries, and at once put fourscore Priests to death (burning them in a ⟨p. 61⟩ship at Sea,) to whom the people adhered, who came to petition him for justice and forbearance. Saith Socr. cap. 14. When the Emperor at Edessa gave the Lieutenant a blow with his fist because he had not scattered the Conventicles, as he had charged him, the Lieutenant, for all this great disgrace, set himself, though unwillingly to obey the Emperors wrath and displeasure; but gave notice secretly of it to the people (for it was far from his mind to fall a murdering so many godly Citizens,) that none should show his face in the Temple, that none should be found raising of any Conventicle: But not one made account of his advice, nor regarded his threats, for the day following all flocked in great companies to the Temple. Then followeth the mention of a woman that with her little Child hastened through the crowd to the meeting hoping to die with the rest. The citizens of Cyzicum banished Eunomius from their City, whom Eudoxius had preferred to that Bishopric, not so much for his Errors as for his arrogant and insolent manner of Preaching, with Logical tricks and sophisms which they could not bear, and so they drove him to Constantinople where he laid by his Bishops Office Id. c. 7.

Eustathius Bishop of Antioch did the like yea came to the Imperial City Constantinople, and there lived in secret to confirm the People and presumed to ordain a Patriarch of that City chosen against the Emperours will: For when Eudoxius was dead, the orthodox people chose Evagrius, a man of their own judgement, and refused Demophilus, Socr. l. 4. c. 13. Both the consecrator and the consecrated Bishop stayed with them till the Emperour sent souldiers from Nicomedia to master the people, and banished them both into several Countries, and at once put fourscore Priests to death (burning them in a ⟨p. 61⟩