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The 11th. Canon of the Council of Antioch, Anno Dom. 341. expresly prohibits Bishops and Priests, to ad∣dress themselves to the Emperor for any business, without the consent and Letters of the Bishops of the Province, especially of the Metropolitan; and the 12th deprives them of the liberty of defending themselves, and leaves
them no hope of re-establishment, if after having been Depos'd by their Synod, they have recourse to the Em∣peror, instead of addressing themselves to a greater Sy∣nod; for example, to that of the whole Diocess com∣posed of the Bishops of several Provinces. The Oecu∣menical Council of Constantinople, Assembled in the year of our Lord 381. appoints in the 6th Canon, not to receive the testimony of those, which, despising the Authority of Provincial Synods, and of those of the whole Diocess, have the confidence to implore Justice of the Emperor, or of the Civil Magistrate; because, say the Fathers, they do injury to the Canons, and they over∣throw all Ecclesiastical Discipline.