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All things are in like manner uncertain concerning Audus and his Followers, whom he mentions in the next place. The Man is represented by Epiphanius to have been a Good Man, of an holy Life, sound in the Faith, full of Zeal and Love to the Truth. But finding many things amiss in the Church, among the Clergy and People, he freely reproved them, for Covetousness, Luxury, and Disorders in Ecclesiastical Affairs. Hereon he stirred up the hatred of many against himself, as Chrysostom did for the same cause afterwards at Constantinople. Hereupon he was vexed, persecuted and greatly abused, all which he bare patiently and continued in the Discharge of his Duty, as it fell out also with Chrysostom. Nevertheless he abode firmly and tenaciously in the Communion of the Church; but was at length cast out, as far as it appears by him, for the honest discharge of his Duty; whereon he gathered a great Party unto himself. But Theodoret and others, affirm him to have been the Author of the impious heresy of the Anthropomorphitae, his principal followers being those Monks of Egypt which afterwards made such Tumults in defence of that foolish Imagination; and that this was the Cause why he was cast out of the Church, and set up a Party of the same Opinion with him, lib. 4. cap. 10. Yea he also ascribes unto him some foolish Opinions of the Manichees. What is our concernment in these things I cannot imagine.

All things are in like manner uncertain concerning Audus and his Followers, whom he mentions in the next place. The Man is represented by Epiphanius to have been a Good Man, of an holy Life, sound in the Faith, full of Zeal and Love to the Truth. But finding many things amiss in the Church, among the Clergy and People, he freely reproved them, for Covetousness, Luxury, and Disorders in Ecclesiastical Affairs. Hereon he stirred up the hatred of many against himself, as Chrysostome did for the same cause afterwards at Constantinople. Hereupon he was vexed, persecuted and greatly abused, all which he bare patiently and continued in the Discharge of his Duty, as it fell out also with Chrysostome. Nevertheless he abode firmly and tenaciously in the Communion of the Church; but was at length cast out, as farre as it appears by him, for the honest discharge of his Duty; whereon he gathered a great Party unto himself. But Theodoret and others, affirm him to have been the Author of the impious heresie of the Anthropomorphitae, his principal followers being those Monks of Egypt which afterwards made such Tumults in defence of that foolish Imagination; and that this was the Cause why he was cast out of the Church, and set up a Party of the same Opinion with him, lib. 4. cap. 10. Yea he also ascribes unto him some foolish Opinions of the Manichees. What is our concernment in these things I cannot imagine.