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

And he that readeth how after all this they were so ready to Anathematize others, and to contemn the prostrate Egyptian Bishops, will think ⟨p. 278⟩that he seeth the first Council of Constantinople as described by Nazianzen here exemplified, notwithstanding the honour that is due to them for their orthodoxness. You see in this much how the great Bishops at the first five General Councils (Nic. 1. Const. 1. Eph. 1. & 2. And Calced.) did carry i•. But when they were asunder were they settled, & did they keep the Churches in concord by these Councils? Let us but, for one instance consider what followed this excellent Council of Calcedon; 1. Leo the Bishop of Rome approved it against Dioscorus, but abhorred the 28th Canon, which set up Constantinople with equal privileges, and that above Alexandria and Antioch: So that the Pope rested not in this Council. 2. What sedition there was at Alexandria upon the change made by this Council all the days of Martian, and of the murder of Proterius presently after, Liberatus in Breviario, and many other tell at large. 3. In Palestine the Monks that had been at the Council, returned lamenting that the faith was there betrayed, and stirred up their fraternity to rescind the acts: They expelled Juvenal Bishop of Jerusalem; The Empress Eudocia took their part: They killed Severianus Bishop of Scythopolis: They compelled men to communicate with them: They murdered Athanasius a Deacon at Jerusalem for contradicting them, and gave his flesh to dogs; They compelled Dorotheus the Emperors Lieutenant to join with them, till after 20 months Juvenal was restored Niceph. l. 15. c. 9. And in many Countries this contention followed; and the women Eudocia and Pulcheria had no small hand in all, till Pulcheria procured Eudocia's Conversion to approve the Council. ⟨p. 279⟩3. When Leo came to reign, the sedition revived at Alexandria between the murderers of Proterius: Timothy Elurus made Bishop by the Councils enemies, deposed by Leo, and Timothy, Salophaciolus put in his place and all was in confusion. The Egyptian Bishops write to the Emperor against the Eutychians; The Emperor sends forth his circular letters for the Council; Niceph. l. 15. c. 17. 18. 19. 4.

And he that readeth how after all this they were so ready to Anathematize others, and to contemn the prostrate Egyptian Bishops, will think