The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories

CAP. V.

Of the sedition raysed at Alexandria about the election of Proterius and in like sort at Ierusalem.

AFter that Dioscorus was exiled into Gangrena, a citie of Paphlagonia, Proterius by the ge∣nerall* 1.1 consent of the councell was chosen byshopp of Alexandria. Beinge stalled in the seae, there rose amonge the people through heate of contention a wonderfull great tumult & vprore. for as it falleth out in such hurliburlies, some would needs cal home Dioscorus, some others very earnestly cleaued vnto Proterius, so that there ensued thereof great slaughter and bloodshed. for Priscus the Rhetorician writeth howe the lieuetenant of Thebais came then to Alexandria,* 1.2 saw al the people on an vprore, & set vpon the magistrates, how they threwe stones at the garrison which endeuoured to keepe y^• peace, how of force they made y^• soldiers flie vnto y^• temple, of old cal∣led Serapis, how the people ranne thither, ransacked y^• temple & burned y^• soldiers quick. the empe∣rour vnderstanding hereof to haue sent thither imediatly two thousand chosē soldiers: who hauing winde & wether at will, arriued at Alexandria y^• sixt day after. Againe when y^• soldiers rauished the wiues, & defloured the daughters of y^• citizens inhabiting Alexandria, y^• the latter skirmish & com∣bat exceded the former in cruelty. After al this how the people assembled together at Circus where their spectacles were solemnized, & there to haue requested Florus who was captaine of the garrisō & gouernour of their city in ciuill affaires, y^• he would restore vnto them y^• priueledged corne which he had depriued them of, their bathes, their spectacles, & other things whatsoeuer were takē from* 1.3 them because of their insurrection & tumults. The aforesaide autor reporteth that Florus appeased their wrath with his presence & gentle exhortation, & restored peace for a while. but in the meane space the monks which inhabited y^• deserts adioyning vnto Ierusalem could not setle quietnes with∣in their brests. for some of them which had bene at the councell & dissented from the decrees, came to Palaestina, cōplayned of the forme of fayth deliuered by y^• councell, & laboured to set other monks on firy sedition. but whē Iuuenalis returned frō y^• councell to his byshoprick & was cōpelled by such aduersaries as laboured to bring him into y^• contrary opinion to cōfute & detest his owne religion & had fled vnto the city where y^• emperour made his abode: they y^• impugned & reuiled the councell of Chalcedon (as I said before) gathered thē selues together, made an election vpon Easter day, chose

Theodosius to their byshopp, who was the ringleader of the whole mischiefe raised in the councell, and the first that certified them of the canons and decrees thereof: concerning whome not long af∣ter* 1.4 the Monks of Palaestina wrote vnto Alcison, how that he was conuicted of haynous crimes by hiw owne byshopp, and expulsed the monastery, and how that continewing a while at Alexandria he cleaued to Dioscorus, was whipped for sedition, set vpon a Camell as malefactors are vsed, and carted throughout the citie. vnto this Theodosius there came many out of the cities of Palaestina, re∣questing him to appoint them byshops, of which number Petrus the Iberian was made byshop of Maiuma hard by Gaza▪ when the trueth of these treacheries came to light Martianus the Empe∣rour commaunded first of all that Theodosius should be brought vnto him with power of armed sol∣diers, secondly he sent thither Iuuenalis, to thende he shoulde reforme the disordered state of the Church, and reduce all to peace and quietnes, moreouer he commaunded him to depose as many as Theodosius had preferred to y^• priestly functiō. After the returne of Iuuenalis into Ierusalē, many grieuous calamities & mischieuous deuices, such as most cōmonly (through the instigation of the enuious deuell, and satan the sworne enemy to God and man) are wont to raigne in the mindes of mortall men, ensued by the meanes of y^e contrary factions. for the deuell by chaunging of one letter and lewde interpreting thereof, brought to passe that it should be pronounced either way for to e∣stablish a contrary opinion, the which sentence as diuers doe thinke is so repugnant, and inferreth such contradictorie sense and meaning, that the one seemeth vtterly to subuert and ouerthrowe the other. for he that confesseth Christ to be IN two natures, saith no lesse but that he consisteth O•• two* 1.5 natures, for by graunting that Christ is both IN diuinitie and humanitie, is to confesse that he con∣sisteth OF diuinitie and humanitie. he againe that saith that Christ consisteth OF two natures affir∣meth plainly that he is IN two natures, for by auouching that he consisteth of diuinitie and huma∣nitie, he testifieth him to be in diuinitie and humanitie: yet not by conuersion of the fleshe into the godhead (whose vniting is inexplicable) neither of y^• godhead into flesh: so that whē we say OF TVVO, we vnderstand withall IN TVVO, & by saying IN TVVO, we meane OF TVVO, not parting y^• one frō the other. for it is toe plaine that the whole, not onely consisteth of the parts, but y^t the whole is vnder∣stood in the parts, yet for al y^• some men be of the vpinion y^t they are farre seuered a sunder, because their mindes and heads are so occupied before, or else because they maintaine some sulline opinion of God or selfe will. that they had leuer endure any kinde of death, then yeelde vnto the plaine and manifest trueth. by occasion of this subtlety of satan the aforesaid mischieues ensued. but so much of these things in this sort.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Proterius b. of Alexan∣dria.
• * 1.2

  A lamenta∣ble sedition at Alexan∣dria about the election of a byshop▪
• * 1.3

  The Mon•…•… inhabitinge the deserts bordering vpon Ierusa∣lem were ••••∣reticks &c ••∣demned t•…•… councell 〈…〉〈…〉 Chalcedo••
• * 1.4

  The behaui∣our of The∣odosius a ••o∣ging monke.
• * 1.5

  The Aequi∣uocall ••allacy of the deuell lay in those two sylables 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.