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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	canon_n	church_n	council_n	4,124	5	7.0362	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81687	The clergies honour: or, the lives of St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Neo-cæsarea, and St. Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. Drawn by way of parallel	Dowell, John, ca. 1627-1690.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2055C; ESTC R223910	54,058	112

is no wonder his passions were so by assed when his Judgment was so imposed upon Theophilus gathers a great company of Bishops together and there all those Bishops which the severity of Chrysostom or the Arts of his Adversaries or all the powers of the Court could make met at a place called the Oak in Constantinople and summoned Chrysostom to appear before them He refused and with the highest reason for what Authority had the Alexandrian Bishop over the Bishop of Constantinople or with what Authority or reason could they celebrate a Council in Constantinople without the consent of Chrysostom Arch Archbishop of Constantinople Chrysostom sent two of his Presbyters to that unlawful Convention of Bishops and acquainted them that their actions were destructive of the Churches peace contrary to the Ecclesiastical Canons and that he refused not to answer any crimes laid against him but he rejected an usurped power and therefore appealed to a General Council They still persist in their determinations upon his non-appearing At the fourth summons they pronounced a sentence of his deposition which being divulged in the City filled them with rage and indignation The whole City is in an uproar here the very Children and Women cryed men raged all hastened to the Cathedral and Palace of Chrysostom whom they detained all night which was pass'd in Prayer and Preaching They could hardly be filled with a greater sorrow and amazement if an Enemy had been sacking their Town then they were at the apprehensions of the loss of Chrysostom but Chrysostom uses all his Eloquence to perswade the people to peace and to behave themselves with all Reverence and obedience to their Religious Emperour O brave mind provoked to excellent actions by injuries and oppressions So Chrysostom retires to his Palace where for some space he keeps himself reserved and would not come to the Church and now Constantinople seems to be in a perpetual night no joy in that City where their brave Preacher was wanting Theophilus seeing the affections of the People for Chrysostom and the rage against him fears an attempt upon his Person the like possest the rest of the Bishops who wisely to prevent any danger leave the City and hasten to their respective Sees Chrysostom receives a message from the Emperour to retire into Exile that the Souldiers were ready to convey him into the place designed for his banishment who fearing his publick departure might occasion an uproar and endanger the Person of the Emperour and Empress privately delivered himself into the hands of the Souldiers and so unknown to the City was carried into Exile But as soon as ever the fame of his Banishment was spread the people were struck with rage and fury the Women and children run with the greatest passion to the Emperors gate and there they begg'd and cry'd for Chrysostom the men assembled in numerous companies nothing in this City but confusion here a company would cry what Judgments waited upon that City which was unworthy of Chrysostom others violently railing at the unlawful proceedings of the Bishops that deposed him So pitiful were the complaints so dangerous was the insurrection that Arcadius had no other means left him to quiet that tumultuous City but with a promise of a speedy restauration of him Whereupon he immediately dispatched Burso an Eunuch of the Empress with special commands to bring Chrysostom back to Constantinople He finding him at Prenetum over against Nicomedia brings him back to the City where he was received with all imaginable expressions of joy No City reduced to the greatest extremity by a potent Enemy besieging it could be more filled with the highest joy at a seasonable succour and relief then the Constantinopolitans were at the return of Chrysostom Their Acclamations were so loud their expressions of content so various and great that Chrysostom's satisfaction for his return was lessened by the immoderate honour they did unto him But he staid in the Suburbs and would not enter into the City nor go into the Pulpit till he was legally absolved till his cause was legally heard and he himself found innocent But this gave no satisfaction to the people they must see Chrysostom in the Church they must hear him preach Whereupon they so pressed upon Arcadius that he forced Chrysostom into the Pulpit and there to pray and preach which he performed In his Benediction they thought themselves all blessed his Prayers they concluded would pierce the Heavens and his pious Eloquence convey them to glory And this course for some months to the infinite content of the Citizens he continued But over against the Church called Sophia one of the miracles of the World the place where he usually preached the Statue of the Empress made of Silver with a rich Mantle over her head was erected before which Plays and Interludes were celebrated Chrysostom looking upon this as a dishonour done to Almighty God dehorts the people from such courses in a great vehemency maintains the dignity of the Divine Service with a torrent of the richest Oratory against Plays and Interludes that it was an inexpressible indignity to Almighty God that the Acclamations and noise of Plays and Interludes should be heard in the Church where Halelujahs are sung to God and so a disturbance be given to the Priest and holy people that wait about the Altar Which Sermon coming to the Empresses ears the fire of her rage which lay smothered under the ashes of dissimulation broke out into an open flame against him so that she openly threatned his second deposition which he receiving in great passion enters the Church and there makes that so famous Sermon which thus begins Herodias still dances Herodias still rages Herodias is still filled with indignation Herodias yet seeks for the head of John in a Platter At which the Empress was so incensed that she would hear of no entreaty for a reconciliation with Chrysostom But immediately sends for Theophilus Archbishop of Alexandria the old and sworn enemy of Chrysostom to summon a Council at Chalcedon there to hear the crimes laid against Chrysostom who justly refused to appear affirming that he kept himself within his own Palace with the company of fifty Bishops of excellent Piety and Learning who spent their time in prayers and tears No crimes in that Council were objected against Chrysostom only he was charged that contrary to the Ecclesiastical Canons he had preached not being absolved and restored to his Church For in a Council at Antioch it was decreed that if any Bishop was deposed he should not be restored to any Ecclesiastical Dignity except the number of Bishops that restored him exceeded the number that deposed him To which Chrysostom made this reply that his deposition was unjust unlawful and in it self null and that for fear of those inconveniences which might follow a popular tumult he voluntarily retired into Exile that he had not returned but by the Emperours command and for fear of the least transgression of