produced against us. But what Weight either ought to bear, the Case before us sufficiently demonstrates. To return to _Apollinaris_: It is very certain, that he held and taught the Doctrine of the _Millenarians_; but it is no less certain, that such a Doctrine was not condemned, as _Baronius_ pretends[1105], by the Council of _Rome_ in 378. since many eminent Men in the Church held it, and _Sulpitius Severus_ among the rest, after that Council, without being deemed Heretics on that score. [Sidenote: _The_ Apollinarists _condemned by several Councils_.] The Sentence pronounced against _Apollinaris_, and his Disciples, by the Council of _Rome_, was confirmed by a Council held the same Year at _Alexandria_[1106], by an Oecumenical Council assembled at _Constantinople_ in 381. and by the Council of _Antioch_ in 379[1107]. However, the _Apollinarists_, though thus condemned and deposed by all the Councils of the East and West, as we read in _Gregory Nazianzen_[1108], still kept their Ground, till Recourse was had to the Secular Power. [Sidenote: _Penal Laws enacted against them._] For the Emperor _Theodosius_, at the Request of _Nectarius_ Bishop of _Constantinople_, enacted a Law, dated the Tenth of _March_ 388. forbidding the _Apollinarists_ to hold Assemblies, to have any Ecclesiastics or Bishops, or to dwell in the Cities[1109]. As this Law was executed with the utmost Rigour, at least against the leading Men of the Party, who were banished the Cities, and confined to the Deserts[1110], the _Apollinarists_ were in a few Years reduced to a very small Number, when they begged to be admitted to the Communion of the Catholic Church, which was in the End granted them by _Theodotus_[1111], who governed the Church of _Antioch_, from the Year 416. to 428. But as their Conversion was owing not to Conviction, but Persecution, they still held in their Hearts the same Sentiments, which ever must happen in the like Case; nay, and privately instilled their Errors into the Minds of many, whose Faith had been, till that time, untainted[1112]. It was to these pretended Catholics, or disguised _Apollinarists_, that the _Eutychian_ Heresy, and that of the _Monothelites_, of whom I shall speak hereafter, owed their Birth[1113]. Hence the Emperor _Marcian_, by an Edict in 455. declared the _Eutychians_ to be _Apollinarists_, and consequently liable to the same Penalties[1114]. As for _Apollinaris_ himself, he died about the Year 392. having maintained, to the Hour of his Death, the same Sentiments, in which he had lived; and, with them, the same outward Appearance, at least, of a most holy and exemplary Life[1115]; which is all the Authors of those Times Will allow him. [Sidenote: _New Disturbances raised by_ Ursinus.]