A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

But in the disposition of the Empire made by Constantine it was ordered, that in every Province there should be but one chief city held for the Metropolis: and that unto it,^l all the Provincials should resort for the administration of public justice. Whereupon Ephesus, being by the former Imperial Constitution, grounded upon the joint consent of the Asians ⟨p. 25⟩themselves,^z preferred before all the rest (as being the ordinary place of the convention of the Common Council, and it self held to be ^athe common treasury of Asia) was appointed to be the sole Metropolis of this new Proconsular Asia; and withal retained the preeminence which formerly it had above all the cities of the old. Whereof, we may see the testimonies, aswell of ^bChrysostom and others of the ancient who wrote upon the Epistle of S Paul to the Ephesians; as of the Emperor ^cTheodosius, in the letters whereby he summoneth Dioscorus and other Bishops to appear at the second Council at Ephesus, assembled by him in the year of our Lord CCCCXLIX.

But in the disposition of the Empire made by Constantine it was ordered, that in every Province there should be but one chiefe city held for the Metropolis: and that unto it,^l all the Provincials should resort for the administration of publike justice. Whereupon Ephesus, being by the former Imperiall Constitution, grounded upon the joincte consent of the Asians ⟨p. 25⟩themselves,^z preferred before all the rest (as being the ordinary place of the convention of the Common Councell, and it self held to be