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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.
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Bishop, George, d. 1668.
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did the Sea keep within its bounds but brake over the Banks and drowned many Countries for it fell out in many places that where a little before men went on foot all was on a float Barques and Ships were used Again in other places the Sea went so far from it self that it left much dry land much sandy And Sea to Land ground and many Fishes These things hapned saith the Historian in the first Consulship of both these Emperors These were the 2 things that commonly marched hand in hand Observations of Judgment marching with Persecution together during this History Persecution and Division in the Church as it s called Commotions and Stirs in the State which Cap. 4. The Historians observation of the same the Historian observes in these words In the time of the aforesaid calamities neither enjoyed the Common-Wealth peace nor were the Ecclesiastical Affairs in prosperous state The Council at Lampsacum The Council at Lampsacum gets the start of Valens confirm the Faith at Antioch of old established Curse that at Ariminum seven years after that of Seleucia being met through the aforesaid troubles those appertaining to Macedonius got the upper hand confirmed the form of Faith that of old was published at Antioch which a little before they had subscribed at Seleucia and accursed the Creed of the Bishops which by uniform consent in Religion they had lately established at Ariminum Against Acacius and Eudoxius they gave Depose Acacius and Eudoxius Sentence as of right deserving to be removed Eudoxius in no wise could resist their doings because of the commotion of Procopius nor be revenged of them wherefore Eleucius of Cyzicum having gotten the upper hand maintained for a while together with his Complices the The Macedonians get the day and a while keep it Anno. 370. Cap. 5. Valens and Procopius pitch Battel Procopius taken alive Strangely executed Macedonian Opinion Well Valens and Procopius met the year following at Nacolea a City in Phrygia and there pitched Battel in the first skirmish Valens side was the weaker in the next he took Procopius alive ordered his Thighs to be tyed to the tops of mighty Boughs groving not far asunder the which first of all with certain Engines he wrested to the ground and afterwards loosened them which lifted Procopius on high and pulled him in pieces Angello and His Captains sawn asunder that betrayed him Gomarius his own Captains that betrayed him he sawed asunder in the midst Procopius being thus torn into two parts died miserably The Emperor saith the History being puffed up with his Valens turns again to Persecution prosperous success turned himself again to molest and persecute the Christians as is the wont of all Persecutors because he determined with himself to prefer every where the Arrian Opinion The Council held at Lampsacum stuck in his stomach not only because they deposed the Arrian Bishops but accursed the form of Faith lately established at Ariminum Therefore coming to Nicomedia he called Eleusius Bishop of Cyzicum who Calls a Council at Nicomedia of Arian Bish was of the Macedonian Opinion before him also a Council of Arrian Bishops and compelled Eleusius to subscribe to their Compel Eleusius to subscribe Faith which at first he utterly denied but being sore threatned by the Emperor with Banishment and confiscation of goods he yeelded But his Conscience was not satisfied for he was in great agony and torment so he turned to Cyzicum and in the face of He is troubled Makes his publick lamentation the Congregation made a pittiful complaint relating the injury the Emperor had done unto him and how he had condescended not by his will but by compulsion and requested them to get another Bishop but they would not nor acknowledge another Bishop over them nor yeeld up the Government of the Church but took him for their Superiour and kept still to their former Opinion In the place of Eleusius Bishop of Constantinople he chose Eunomius Cap. 7. Eunomius put in his place aforesaid who being an eloquent man he thought the people might be induced the more to receive him and the Emperor sent commandment That he should be put out and Eunomius put in his room whereupon the favourers of Eleusius built Eleusius's people hold Conventicles them what is called a Church without the Walls of the City and there had their private Conventicles as saith the History This Eunomius was the Scribe of Aetius as I have formerly spoken with whom living it is said he learnt his captious falacies and quirks of Logick which of Sophisters is highly embraced Moreover with vain Speeches and Epithetons he was delighted he is said to learn unadvisedly to frame Sophistical Arguments in which he took great pride and ran headlong into blasphemy he imbraced Arius and impugned the Faith of one Substance when Eunomius's Sophistry raises a tumult after his wonted manner he fed the Ears of his Auditors out of the Pulpit with Sophistical Arguments and Reasons of Logick he amazed them so that a great tumult was raised at Cyzicum and the Citizens that could not away with his arrogant and insolent Which banishes him Cyzicum He gets to Constantinople playes the Bish no longer His blasphemous Opinions and Atheistical manner of preaching banished him the City from whence he got to Constantinople to Eudoxius and saith the History plaid the Bishop no longer He said as followeth God of his own Essence understood no more then we do neither is the same better known or understood of him than of us and whatsoever we know of it the same knoweth he and look what his capacity reacheth to the same thou shalt find in us This was the Heresie or rather the Blasphemy of Eunomius who was made a Bishop as aforesaid and became the head of those who held the same Atheistical Opinion of God of whom I have treated the larger because the Reader may understand what things were held and what was amongst them Those of the Faith of one Substance together with the Novations Cap. 8. The Nicenians and Navations banished Constantinople Doors shut up Agelius exiled The Bishop alwayes went barefoot had but one Coat the Emperor banished out of Constantinople and nailed up their Church doors as they are called and exiled Agelius the Novation Bishop who had ruled their Church from the dayes of Constantine It is said of this Bishop that he went alwayes barefoot and had but one Coat yet through the influence of Martianus who was sometimes a Souldier in the Emperors Pallace the Novation places were opened again yet were they not rid of the Arrians nor delivered from their Persecution I must still take notice as I go along how the displeasure of the Judgements again attending Persecution Lord alwayes accompanied these Persecutors in some exemplary or signal hand of Judgment or that which is pertentious or significatory thereto The year following these unnatural
themselves that his obedience would declare Whether God had guided him to lead such a life and to take upon him in this World so weighty a Combate to chastise his Carkass But if he stubbornly resisted if he were froward and wilful not yeelding with all speed unto their Or to pull him down with a vengeance counsel and advice he should pull him down with a vengeance But I must not stay longer on the relation of this man and this The ignorance of God the ground of all Superstition and imposing of Religion example of superstition in one President that those times did produce in the World this was necessary to give as an instance I shall now proceed to matters of another nature yet proceeding from the same root viz. the Ignorance of God The Lord was displeased in this day Attilas King of Scythia Cap. 17. Judgements in the Common-Wealth Attilas invades East and West An Earthquake exceeding all that went before Almost throughout the world Anno. 4â—2 The Palace shaken invaded both East and West and won many great Cities and behaved himself nobly to the end of his dayes A great Earthquake the strangeness whereof exceeded all that ever were before-going in a manner throughout the whole world hapned in the latter end of the reign of Theodosius Though yet he was praised for such a gentle Prince yet dared he to meddle with Religion and Faith and to do therein as aforesaid Many Turrets within the Pallace were overthrown to the ground the long Wall of Cherronesis turned to ruine many Villages swallowed up many Many Villages swallowed up Well-springs dried Fountains in dry places Trees rooted up Valleys become Mountains Fish dead Islands drowned Sea overflows Ships on ground where the Sea was Many Countries undone in Bythinia Hellespont c. woful mischances fell out unto mankind both by Sea and Land many Well-springs dried up where Fountains were never seen before it flowed out many Trees were pulled up by the Roots the Vallies became high Mountains the Sea threw out Fish for dead many Islands drowned the Sea over-ran the Banks and overflowed the Countries many Ships that had been in the Sea seen on ground by the falling back of the Sea not yeelding its wonted streams many Countries through Bythynia Hellespont and both the Phrygia's endured such calamities that they were utterly undone Nor were these the only troubles that invaded the Empire for Cap. 19. Great Sedition in the West Wars with the Persians Theodosius dies there was great Sedition throughout Europe when Valentinianus governed the Western Dominions and with the Persians there was War as aforesaid He reigned thirty and eight years and then he died Martianus succeeded Theodosius No sooner had he entered Cran. p 590. Anno. 450. Lib. 2. Cap. 2. Martianus succeeds and peace with him but disquiet among the Bishops Leo of Rome begins Complains of Dioscorus's slighting the Decâ—ees of the second Council at Ephesus Desires a Council Eusebius complains of Chrysaphius defrauding him and Flavianus of their Bishopricks Gold demanded by Chrysaphius for the admission of Flavianus Other accusations the Throne but he presently is entertained with some of the old trade of disquiet among the Christians Leo Bishop of old Rome sends to him that Dioscorus had made light of the Decree which he had laid down in the second Council of Ephesus agreeable unto the true and right Faith others also complain of the injuries and contumelies Dioscorus had done unto them desiring a Council might be called for the hearing of these matters Eusebius of Dorilaeum also chiefly above all others follows the Emperor shewing him how he and Flavianus were defrauded of their Bishopricks through the fraud and wiles of Chrysaphius sometimes of Theodosius his Guard that Flavianus at what time Chrysaphius sent unto him requiring Gold for his admission unto the Bishoprick sent unto him the Holy Vessels of the Church for to make him throughly ashamed of his demand and that he wallowed alike in the Heretical Puddle and Blasphemous Impiety of Eutyches Moreover that Flavianus was lamentably slain by the procurement Flavianus murdered by Dioscorus of Dioscorus who thrust him violently out of the Church and disdainfully trod on him with his feet A Council therefore was summoned at Chalcedon for the hearing A Council at Chalcedon of these matters and Legates and Posts were sent every where for the calling of them together the Bishops come and meet together some Senators with them and also the Emperor Cap. 4. Dioscorus deposed and exiled Nicene Creed against Eutyches's Canons decreed Much debating The conclusion of the Council matters are turned up-side down and great bustle is made Dioscorus is at length deposed and ordered into banishment and the Nicene Creed and several other things against Eutyches are Decreed and several Canons of the Church and much debatings to and again and at length it thus endeth Seeing we have sifted out the truth of these things with great care and diligence the Sacred and General Council hath Decreed that it shall be lawful for no man either to alleadge or to write or to frame or to believe or to teach any other Faith Moreover the Council commandeth such as None must alleadge write frame believe teach any other Faith presume to devise any other Faith or to bring forth or to teach or to publish any other Creed unto such as turn either from Paganism to Judaism or any other Sect whatsoever unto the knowledge of the Truth If they be Bishops that they be deposed of their Bishop-like The penalties dignities If Priests that they be degraded If Monks and Lay-people that they be accursed Hillarius and the Eastern Bishops The manner of Exclamation at the accursing of Dioscorus Cap. 18. And conjuring God to chastize him and the Emperor to be avenged on him cryed out Let Dioscorus be accursed In the very same hour Christ deprived Dioscorus when Dioscorus deposed Flavianus Oh Holy Lord we beseech thee chastise thou him and thou O Catholick Emperor be avenged on him these were Christians so called but what spirit they were of let understanding men judge according to the Spirit of Truth God grant Leo who was then Leo his Benedictus Bishop of Rome may live many years God send the Patriark a long life When the Sentence was passed on the Bishops that were deposed with Dioscorus which was afterward to those Bishops The cry upon Dioscorus's Judgment The Bishops of Illyrium confessing themselves all to have done amiss remitted but not to Dioscorus the Bishops of the East cryed out The Judgment is just Then the Bishops of Illyricum said We have all done amiss and therefore we all crave pardon And when the Bishops of the East cryed again The Sentence is just Christ deposeth the Murderer Christ revengeth the quarrel of the Martyrs The Senators bad every one give in his particular The Emperors Fâ—ith according to that