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child of the Devil. eſpouſing the diabolical tenets
of arms, a violent perſecution aroſe betwixt the
Arians and the orthodox. So virulently did
they carry on this perſecution, that the Devil
by means of the emperor Julian made one puſh
for eſtabliſhing Paganiſm again; but like King
James II, he drove too hard; and Julian had ſo
provoked the whole Romiſh empire which was
generally become Chriſtian, that had the apoſtate
lived he would not have been able to have held
the throne; but as he was cut off in his begin-
ning, Paganiſm expired with him; and even Satan
with propriety might have joined him when mor-
tally wounded (throwing a handful of his own
blood, as it were at heaven), crying, Thou haſt
conquered me, O Galilean.
Juvian, the next emperor, being a glorious
Chriſtian, and a very good and great man, the
Devil abdicated for a while, and left the Chriſtian
armies to re eſtabliſh the orthodox faith; nor
could be bring the Chriſtians to a breach again
among themſelves a great while after. But the
Devil, a more cunning fiſhermen than ever St Pe-
ter was, ſoon ſet the Biſhops effectually by the
ears with the new notion of Primacy; which bait
the prieſts eagerly ſwallowed, and ſoon fell to
baniſhing and party-making for the ſuperiority as
heartily as ever temporal tyrants did for domi-
mion; and took as black and deviliſh methods to
carry it on, as the worſt of thoſe tyrants ever
had done before them.
At laſt Satan declared for the Roman pontiff,
and that upon excellent conditions, in the reign
of the emperor Mauritus; for Boniface, who had
long contended for the title of ſupreme, fell into
a treaty with Phocas captain of the emperor's
guard; whether the bargain was from hell or
not, let any one judge, the conditions abſolutely
