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    5 entmeni it seems at the intolerable arrogance of that domineering demagogue , " Who is this Austin ? " for What is Austin to me ?) for which some of the council angrily reproved

    him , saying , " that any who would speak against that bishop , deserved to be turned out , not only from that assembl y ^ but even from the whole church : ' * which shews what mighty weight the name of Austin had with them . Yet , surely , Pela * gius had very good reason for complaining and saying , < Who is this Austin , or what is he to me , that I should be thus-cate- *

    chised and taken to task , only for presuming to think and judge for myself , or happening to be of a different opinion from him } " Nothing further was done at the council , only it was talked of referring the matter to the judgment of Innocent bishop

    of Rome * He was , it seems , befriended by the Patriarch , who presided at the council , and who had a great regard for him * Orosius , his accuser , who soon after fell out with the Patriarch , could not support his charges with any great vigour , as he could not spe ^ k Greek , and the members of the council could not

    speak Latin . This was ill the year 415 , Toward the close of the same year there was another council , or synod , consistin g of 14 bishops , held at Diospolis ( the Lydda of the 1 ST . T . ) where Pelagius was summoned , tried and acquitted . This gave fresh umbrage to his persecutors . The Patriarch was abused , under pretence of his having befriended or favoured the

    accused , and the synod itself was reviled by Jerome , and called , " The pitiful Synod of Diospolis . " Austin also wrote to the Patriarch and attempted to bias him against Pelagius . Afterward a synod or council was held at Carthage 9 and another at Milevum , against the reputed heretic , where he was condemned of course * Austin and his brethren had every thincc there in

    their own way : they then wrote letters to Innocent , bishop of Rome , to persuade him to accede to their sentence . Pelagius also wrote to the same bishop in his own defence , complaining of hard and unjust treatment . Innocent died soon after , and was succeeded by Zosimus , who was favourably disposed toward the ^ ccused , and acquitted him and his party : at which Austin

    wrote to Zosimus , and became very clamorous . The Emperor also took the same side : so that Zosimus found it necessary to reverse his sentence of acquittal , and join in the condemnation

    of the Pelagians . They were then treated very rigorously and cruelly , like outlaws , and condemned in different parts of the world by no less than 21 councils , the < 2 < 2 d of which was held at pendant ^ or St . AI bans , iu this island , in 429 , the very 3 'ear tfcat Gannon , or St . German arrived here . The storm

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/7/