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

Flavian was unwilling, but his timorous fellow-Bishops persuading him, he wrote his curse against them, and sent it to the Emperor. Xenaias then went further, and required him to curse the Council: They prevailed with the Isaurian Bishops to consent, and all renounced the refusers as Nestorians: And thus the Council having (in name) condemned the Nestorians and Eutychians, the Eutychians called all Nestorians that cursed not the Council, and got many cast out. After Flavian, Sever•s got in at Antioch: The first day he cursed the Council (though it's said that he swore to the Emperor before that he would not) Nicep. c. 29. In Palestine there were renewed the like confusions about the condemnation of Flavian and Macedonius: About Antioch Severus Letters frightened many Bishops to curse the Council, and those ⟨p. 284⟩that held two Natures: Some Bishops revoked their sentence, and said they did it for fear: Some stood out: And the Isaurian Bishops, when they repented, condemned Severus himself, that drove them to subscribe: And some Bishops fled from their Churches for fear. Cosmas and Severianus sent a condemnation to Severus: The Emperor hearing of it, sent his Procurator to cast them out of their Bishoprics for presuming to condemn their Patriarchs. The Procurator found the people so resolute, that he sent word to the Emperor, that these two Bishops could not be cast out without blood-shed: The Emperor answered; that he would not have a drop of blood shed for the business. Elijah Bishop of Jerusalem, found all the other Churches in such confusion, condemning one another, that he would communicate with none of them but Euphemius at Const. Nic•p. c. 32. And that you may see how people then were moved, a Monk or Abbot Theodosius gathering an Assembly, loudly cried out in the Pulpit, [If any man equal not the four Councils with the four Evangelists, let him be Anathema.] This voice of their Captain resolved them all, and they took it as a Law, that the four Councils should be [sacris libris accensenda] and wrote to the Emperor certamen se de eis ad sanguinem usque subituros. (This was then the submission to Princes by the adherents to the Councils of the Bishops. And they went about to the Cities to bring them to join with them. The Emperor wrote to Elijah to reform this: He rejecting his Letters, Soldiers were sent to compel them.

Flavian was unwilling, but his timerous fellow-Bishops perswading him, he wrote his curse against them, and sent it to the Emperour. Xenaias then went further, and required him to curse the Council: They prevailed with the Isaurian Bishops to consent, and all renounced the refusers as Nestorians: And thus the Council having (in name) condemned the Nestorians and Eutychians, the Eutychians called all Nestorians that cursed not the Council, and got many cast out. After Flavian, Severs got in at Antioch: The first day he cursed the Council (though it's said that he swore to the Emperour before that he would not) Nicep. c. 29. In Palestine there were renewed the like confusions about the condemnation of Flavian and Macedonius: About Antioch Severus Letters frightened many Bishops to curse the Council, and those