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

This Emperor, before his enthroning, had given under his hand to Euphemius, a promise to stand for the Council: He demanded his writing again; Euphemius denied him, and was cast out: Macedonius succeeded him: He had the same writing: The Emperor demanded it of him: He also denied him: The Emperor would have put him out: The people rise up in sedition, and cried, It is a time of Martyrdom: Let us a•l st••k to the Bishop: And they reviled the Emperor, calling him a Manichee, unworthy the Empire. The Emperor was fain to submit to Macedonius, who sharply rebuked him as the Churches enemy; but in time he remembered this, and cast out Macedonius, and burnt the Councils Acts, and put Timothy in his place, who presently pulled down the Image of Macedonius: The Patriarchs also of Alex. Antioch, & Bishop of Jerusalem, were all cast out, even those that were against the Council. Pet. Cnapheus had made one Xena•as a Persian servant & unbaptized, Bishop of Hierapolis: He was against Images, and brought a troop of Monks to Antioch, to force Flavianus the Bishop to curse the Council: Flavianus denied it: The people stuck to the Bishop, and so unanswerably disputed down the Monks, that so great a multitude of them were slain, as that they threw their bodies into the River Orontes, to save them labour of burying of them. (Nicep. c. 27.) But this was not all; another troop of Monks of Caelosrria, that were of Flavianus side, hearing of the tumult, flocked to Antioch, and made ⟨p. 283⟩another slaughter as great as the former (saith the Historian.) For this the Emperor banished Flavianus, whose followers thought his punishment too great after all these murders. Peter being dead, the Bishops of Alexandria, Egypt and Libya, fell in pieces among themselves; each having their separate Conventions: The rest of the East also separated from the West, because the West would not communicate with them, unless they would curse Nestorius, Eutyches, Dioscorus, Moggus, and Acacius. And yet (saith Niceph. l. 16. c. •8.) Qui Germani Dioscori & Eutychetis sectatores suere, ad maximam paucitatem redacti sunt. Xenaias bringeth to Flavian the names of Theodore, Theodorite, Ibas, and others, as Nestorians, and tells him, if he anathematize not all these, he is a Nestorian, whatever he say to the contrary: