SECT. V. The Popes power of restoring Bishops without a Councell, proued.
ANastasius Patriarke of Hierusalem that liued 1100. yeares since in acknowledgment of this power, writ to Felix B. of Rome(c) 1.1: The prerogatiue of your Apostolike See, hath euer bene, to restore by the authority of your power, them, that haue bene iniustly condemned, or excommunicated, and to returne vnto them, all that hath bene taken from them, and by the Apostoli∣call priuiledge, to punish those, that condemned, or excommunicated them, as we know it to haue bene done, both in our, and in former tymes. The practise of this authority is no lesse certaine, out of the Ecclesiasticall writers. Eustathius B. of Sebaste in Armenia, being deposed from his Bishoprick by the Coū∣cell of Melitine, trauelled to Rome, and bringing letters of restitution from Liberius Pope, the Councell of Tyana in Cappadocia, obeying, receaued him, without inquiring of the conditions, by meanes wherof he had bene restored. The things(d) 1.2 that were proposed to him, by the most blessed Bishop Liberius, & what submission he made, we know not: Only he brought a letter, that restored him, which being shewed to the Councell of Tyana, he was reestablished in his Bishops seat. Againe, when the Emperor Valens had driuen Peter that famous Patriarke of Alexandria (whom Theodosius and Valentinian call(e) 1.3 a man of Apostolicall sanctity) from his See, and placed in it Lu∣cius an Arian heretike, Peter going to Rome appealed to Damasus Pope, & obteined letters of restitution from him. Peter (sayth Socrates)(f) 1.4 being returned from Rome to Alexan∣dria, with letters from Damasus B. of Rome, which confirmed the creation of Peter, the people encouraged, draue away Lucius, and re∣stored Peter in his place. And whē Theodoret B. of Cyre bor∣dering vpon Persia, was deposed from his Bishoprick by