President of this Council; and the other (_Alexander_) held in it the next place to him; and poor _Arius_ excluded; and the Bishops who favoured him in the Council, though at first freely declaring their dissent, yet at last over-awed to a subscription; as also was _Arius_ himself chiefly by the Emperor _Constantine_'s overbearing authority; who, before somewhat indifferent in the contest, yet upon Arius his undutiful and too peremptory Letters, had some years before taken great offence at him; and also (as he was very eloquent) publickly written against him[44]. Which _overawing_ hence appears, in that the same _Bishops_ that were adherents to _Arius_, when, this Emperor being deceased, _Constantius_ his Son countenanced their Cause, returned, I say not to their former Opinion only, but to their publick profession of it. By which we may guess, that if the Controversie had at that time been committed to equal and disengaged Judges, and such as had not formerly shewed themselves a Party; or, if the Oriental Bishops, without any fear of the Prince upon them, might have given free Votes; and the _Arian_ Cause had then had a _Constantius_ instead of a _Constantine_, (things wherein Protestants well understand me, because on the same Grounds they have rejected the Council of _Trent_) we may presume then the issue would have been under _Constantine_ the same that it was under his Successor, I say before Judges equal and indifferent, and not such as were before a Party, though this Party should be compounded of the chief Superior Prelates of the Church. For, as Dr. _Stillingfleet_ urgeth, [45]----_We must either absolutely, and roundly assert, that it is impossible that the Superiors in the Church may be guilty of any error or corruption; or, that if they be, they must never be called to an account for it; or else, that it may be just, in some Cases, to except against them as Parties: And if in some Cases, then the Question comes to this, Whether the present_ [he speaks of Idolatry, I of Consubstantiality] _be some of these Cases or no? And here if we make those Superiors Judges again, what we granted before comes to nothing._