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A28235 A looking-glass for the times being a tract concerning the original and rise of truth and the original and rise of Antichrist : showing by pregnant instances of Scripture, history, and other writings, that the principles and practices of the people called Quakers in this day and their sufferings are the same as were the principles and practices of Christ and His apostles ... / by George Bishope. Bishop, George, d. 1668. 1668 (1668) Wing B2998; ESTC R14705 345,237 250

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the one Divine the other Humane And the new patched Faith of him those with him And the Isaurians by flatteries and fallacies they got to their sides and patched together a form of Faith wherein they accursed both the Council and such as esteemed there were two Natures in Christ And in the end divided themselves from Flavianus Their horrible division and Macedonius and joyned with them who had subscribed to their patched Faith The Bishop of Jerusalem in the mean time they requested to lay down his Faith in writing which he did and sent it by the faction of Dioscorus to the Emperor and this It s sent to the Emperor Faith at last they brought forth accursing those that said he had two Natures but it seems they had corrupted his form of Faith Complained of to be corrupted Another is wrote The Books and Writings of the Fathers corrupted for he charged them therewith and wrote another wherein there is no such accurse it seems they oft-times corrupted the Books and Writings of the Fathers by changing their Titles and Inscriptions and fathering of many of the works of others upon them They craved of Macedonius to see his Belief in writing Macedonius's belief who protested that he onely allowed the Faith published of old at Nice by 318. Fathers and afterwards ratified at Constantinople accursing Nestorius Eutyches with such as said there were two Sons or two Christs or divided the Natures yet spake he not a word of the Ephesian Council which deposed Nestorius neither of the Chalcedon Council which deprived Entyches therefore the Monks at Constantinople were wonderfully moved at this and divided The Monks divide from him The intollerable behaviour of Xenaias and Dioscorus themselves from Macedonius All this while Xenaias and Dioscorus having linked to their sides many other Bishops behaved themselves intollerably towards such as would not accurse whom they would have accursed insomuch that they procured divers because they would not yeeld unto them to be banished Many by them banished viz. Macedonius John Flavianus Thus they made Macedonius John Bishop of Platum and Flavianus to leave the Countrey In these things I have been the more particular because they The end wherefore these divisions are mentioned are so significant to the matter I have in hand which is once for all as I have said to draw a line over all professions of Faith and imposing of Religion as that which hath produced the saddest Scenes of Murder and Division as hath been yet in the World and which I mean to close up with that which appertains thereunto viz. Judgment and Destruction Therefore I would have none to be offended with me for a necessity lies upon me thus to bring these things into the World That which gave Anastatius the secret displeasure was this Cap. 32. The ground of Anastatius's displeasure with Macedonius Ariadne intending to put the Imperial Robe on Anastatius after the death of Zeno Macedonius would in no wise assent unto his Coronation unless he would give it under his hand and confirm it with an Oath that he would maintain the true Faith and bring no novelty into the Church which he gave Macedonius to keep for Anastatius was suspected to be a Manichee Anastatius taking it as a great disreputation to the Empire that his hand should be kept to testifie against him called for it Macedonius denyed him saying That it should never be said of him viz. Macedonius that he betrayed the Faith Therefore Anastatius sought to And wherefore at first he carried it so indifferently in matters of Religion work him mischief as there was opportunity and the aforesaid was the reason why Anastatius carried it so indifferently at first in matters of Religion This as to M●cedonius and what gave the occasion of working him out of the Bishoprick of Constantinople As for Flavianus the Monks of Cynegica which inhabited the chiefest Countries of Syria being perswaded by Xanaias a Bishop of Hierapolis bordering upon Antioch aforesaid sirnamed Philoxenus after the Grecians came all on head to Antioch having made an Insurrection with resolution to force Flavianus to curse the Council of Chalcedon and Leo's Decree of the Faith which Flavianus taking very grievously the Monks urging him with violence the Citizens Many of the Monks slain at Antioch because of the things aforesaid and thrown into the River made such a slaughter of the Monks that very many of them instead of quiet Grave and Earth were covered with the swift Waves of the River Orontes whereinto they were cast On the other side the Monks that inhabited Coelosyria now called The Monks on the other side came to assist Flavianus Are slaughtered He is banished Syria Minor came to Antioch to assist Flavianus which proved of mischievous consequence and in the end no less lamentable than the former whether for the former or the later slaughter and calamity or for both the History determines not but banished he was the Province to inhabit the craggy Desarts in the farthest part of Palestina Severus succeeds Flavianus and a great bustle there is about Cap. 33. Severus and the bustle about him him from him fell the Province of Apamia and Cosmos Bishop of Epiphania and Severianus Bishop of Arethusa first divided themselves from his Communion then sent him a Libel of Deprivation A Sentence of Deprivation sent to him by a Deacon in a disguise which to him was delivered by a Deacon in the disguise of a Woman faining both Voice and Apparel Of which Anastatius hearing and considering their practises charged Asiaticus The Emperor charges hereupon Asiaticus to remove Cosmos and Severianus Lieutenant of Libaeesa in Phoenicia to remove Cosmos and Severianus from their Bishopricks because of the Libel of Deprivation But Asiaticus perceiving that without slaughter and bloodshed it could not be accomplished because the people stood to He durst not do it because of the people Certifies the Emperor them and manfully defended their Walls he certified the Emperor thereof who returned him in answer That he would have The Emperors gentle Answer for avoding the effusion of blood Severus held in whilst Anastatius reigned His name blotted by some out of the Sacred Catalogue no enterprize taken in hand were it never so noble and worthy if it did cost him as much as one drop of blood He kept Severus in his place whilst he held the Scepter and had tenderness as aforesaid yet some blotted him out of the Sacred Catalogue as it was called as an Enemy to the Council of Chalcedon for he was accursed at Jerusalem Thus much as to the Affairs Ecclesiastical As to the Civil Longinus Zeno's Brother after his coming Cap. 35. Civil Troubles Longinus raises War against Anastatius in Isauria The Bishops of Apamia assist him into Isauria his Native Soyl of which I have spoken practised against Anastatius and made preparation to