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quarrels and defend their rights. 



The Archdeacon was now soriously alarmed. Many of the 

 churches were overawed by the Heathen prnices, some of the most 

 important (particularly CarturW, Molandnrte and Dtamper) were 

 suodued by the personal exertions of the unwearied and determined 

 Prelate ; and every h venue of the country was so guarded by the 

 Portuguese, that his own escape and the arrival of a Syrian Bishop 

 appeared equally hopeless. The Archbishop, being- informed of his 

 perplexity, wrote a letter to him, in which he ' cited hnn to appear 



* before the tribunal of God to give an account of those souls pnr- 



* chased by the blood of Ch^i^t, who were perishing by his re\olt 



* and disobedience; he assured him that this citation must shortly 

 ' be obeyed; that he had been desirous, according to the laws of 



* Charily, to avert it; that he spoke this not as a Prophet, but as a 



* man persuaded that God would not abandon his church, and 



* that the glorious Apostle St. Thomas would intercede with God 

 ' for his disciples against those who were opposed to their welfare. 



This letter was well timed and the etJect of it decisive. The 

 Archdeacon replied that he repented of his opposition, which he 

 entreated the Archbishop to pardon, and that he submitted himself 

 to the Roman Church. 



The Archbishop, though delighted at this full concession, was 

 determined to humble his adversary still further, and told the Ca- 

 tanar wiio brought the letter he had been so often deceived by 

 similar devices of Heretics, that he could not believe his present 

 professions to be sincere except he signed the ten following Arti- 

 cles. 



1. That he should abjure the errors of Nestorius, and his disci- 

 ples Diodorus and Theodorus* whom the Christians of Malabar 

 reverence as Saints ; that he should confess them to he accursed 

 hertticsy condemned to eternal punishment Jor their errorSy in 

 which they persisted even to their death. 



2. That he should confess that there is not a law of St. Peter 

 and a law of St. ThomaSy but one only law of Jesus Christ our 

 Lordf preached uniformly throughout the world by all the Apos- 

 tles. 



* A notable instance of the i<?norance of Menezes and his coadju- 

 tors. Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodoras of Mopsuesta had both been dead 

 long before the elevation of Nestorius to the See of Constantinople ! Diodo- 

 rus is conmended by Basil, Epiphanias, Chrysostom, and all the orthodox 

 "writers of his age, and was never charged with any errors ! The condemna- 

 tion of the other was procured, long after his death, by intrigues which are 

 fully related by all Ecclesiastical Historiaas. La Cruze, 



