Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…

And remember what work it hath made in the Churches of Christ already. Read but what Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, Evagrius, Nicephorus, &c. say of the feuds of the old Bishops: Read but the Acts of the Councils at Ephes. 1, & 2. of Chalcedon, at Ariminum, at Sirmium, at Nice, 2d. &c. and if horror and shame do not overwhelm you, to think what Christian Bishops did, and that so early in the face of the Heathens, you are not men. Read but how Nazianzene was used at Constantinople, by a Synod of Orthodox Bishops, when he had overcome the Arians: Read the Controversies between Basil and Anthymius, and others: Read the doleful story of Theophilus Alexandrinus, and ⟨p. 124⟩the Egyptian Monks, and of the same Theophilus his manner of dealing against the Origenists, and of his double Letters and Present which he sent by Isidore a Priest, to the Emperor and Maximus, to be given to him that got the better: Read the odious story of the said Theophilus and Epiphanius his proceedings against Chrysostom, and his ejection by a Council of Bishops: Read the proceedings of Ithacius and Idacius and their Synods in Sulp. Severus: There is no end of instances: Read but the destruction of the many hundred British Monks at Bangor, and the great suspicions that Augustine caused it. Look but on the face of the Greek and Latin Churches to this day, from the beginning and cause of their divisions: And see what the Lutherans have done oft times against the Calvinists in Saxony, and other parts of Germany, (as in Gasp. Peucer's sufferings for one:) And see what the Roman Papacy and Clergy have done in the world by Lordly Pride and selfishness: And lastly, See what hath bin done by it in this Land; and at last learn by experience, and judge of Church-mens Pride by the effects.

And remember what work it hath made in the Churches of Christ already. Read but what Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, Evagrius, Nicephorus, &c. say of the fewds of the old Bishops: Read but the Acts of the Councils at Ephes. 1, & 2. of Chalcedon, at Ariminum, at Sirmium, at Nice, 2d. &c. and if horrour and shame do not overwhelm you, to think what Christian Bishops did, and that so early in the face of the Heathens, you are not men. Read but how Nazianzene was used at Constantinople, by a Synod of Orthodox Bishops, when he had overcome the Arrians: Read the Controversies between Basil and Anthymius, and others: Read the doleful story of Theophilus Alexandrinus, and