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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

life Wilt thou O Christian learn that wisdom with which the Teacher of the World was endued consider how he clearly discovers that whatsoever seems illustrious in the World is really nothing Mark the Language that he useth 1 Cor. 4. 17. The things that are seen say abundance of Riches if you alledge Lustre Glory and Majesty if Dominion Power if Empires if Thrones and Crowns all these things are seen and are Temporal their continuance is but short and the enjoyment of them but for a moment If these things that are seen are but Temporal what things O blessed Paul wouldst thou have us to pursue He returns things not seen things which corporal eyes cannot behold If any one shall object who is it that counsels us to neglect visible and pursue invisible things Heavenly Paul replies the nature of the things counsel and command you see these things you see them uncertain and the continuance of them short but those things which we cannot see are Eternal they know no end nor admit of a Period This he says was the subject of his continued Labours and daily Sermons So that that by the Apostle pronounced concerning the Patriarchs may be applyed to these great persons Heb. 11. 14. They that say such things declare plainly that they seek another Country Basil having consumed his body by vast labours as a glorious Lamp that Their deaths and Burials wasts it self with its own fire and goes out with the greatest flame So Basil with continual fasting in perpetual prayers study and preaching cast himself into a perpetual sickness which caused him to study Physick His incessant disease made him a Physician he scarce ever being in good health Recovering out of a former disease he was very much troubled that being near the Haven a contrary wind should drive him into the Sea again But after he had gloriously ruled the Church for 8 years and 2 months Anno 378. he fell into his last sickness which was a violent Feaver it disturbed not his Reason nor Religion his Soul burnt with Divine ardours and he cast the flames of love to God in all his discourses When he could hardly speak and ready to give up the last Gasp he called for several of the Clergy and other Religious persons and gave them most prudent most sacred most religious admonitions concerning both the guiding of their own lives and ordering of the Church of God and interrupting that discourse his strength being wasted he breaks out into this Ejaculation O Lord into thy hands I commit my Spirit and with that aspiration his Soul flew to Heaven and left the Body of Basilius for the society of Angels expecting to receive it in the resurrection of the Just The news of his death being spread throughout the City filled all with sorrow and horrour In him the very Children thought they had lost their Parents Wives their Husbands Parents their Children the Glory the Protection of the City they thought was gone and his Funeral was celebrated by the confluence of all sorts of people The Desarts were emptied of all their Religious persons the Country became unpeopled Jews and Gentiles flocked to attend his Herse in so great a croud many thronging to be within the shadow of the Herse or to touch the Bier perished in so great a multitude many were pressed to death as unwilling to survive that great Person being his funeral Victims they would offer themselves willingly a Sacrifice to this great Saint The memory of him was so famous that his very Gestures his Speech his Garb his Gate every thing the most excellent Persons endeavoured to imitate and they thought them admirable who could express in themselves any thing of Basilius Alass these were but faint representations of his Virtues as Ecchoes rebound but the last sillable so scarce any could express the meanest of his Excellencies His fame was so glorious that he hath acquired the name of Great Pompey and Alexander gained the same Title by their Arms and Victories but he by Grace and the Triumphs of Religion The universal testimony of the Church hath canonized him for a Saint his Laurels grow out of his grave and the glory of his Memorial shall never lose its lustre The Emperours anger continuing still against Chrysostom prohibited the conversation of Letters with him caused him to be removed from Place to Place that it might be unknown where he was Arriving at Caesarea Pharetrius Bishop of that place and successor of Basil a man infinitely inferiour to his Predecessor and of a different humour denied him Lodgings in the City prohibited a Religious Lady that lived 5 miles distant from Caesarea to entertain him The famous Bishop gave the foreign Communion to Strangers Pagans to Hereticks but how differently contrary is Pharetrius who permits not an entertainment to Chrysostom the most glorious Prelate of the World After one years rest and civil usage at Cucusum he was hurried to Petiuntum the Souldiers having received a special command from the Emperour that they should not permit him any quiet nor suffer his decayed body to receive any refreshment by ease in violent storms he should have no shelter in great heats he should not have the benefit of the shades but be carried from place to place Yet in all these troubles his mind was elevated always comforting disconsolate Christians Thus he whilst he was gloriously fighting in the Front of the Battle encouraged the Souldiers in the Rear Carried to Comanum he as the customs of holy men were to enter the Church goes to the Temple of Basiliscus to pray after which his Feaver increasing worn with labours wasted by travels in holy prayers and Ejaculations he gives up the Ghost Anno 407. having sat in the See 9 years 7 months and 8 days He enter'd a Temple to pray immediately before he was to enter into that Temple where the Lamb is the light thereof A period is put to the Travels of this Pilgrim his banishment finds an end now he enters into the City of God that new Jerusalem and is in that place where there remains a rest for the Servants of God The news of his death flying into Armenia and the adjacent Countries they were all struck with an excessive grief the Inhabitants forsook their Country to celebrate the Funeral of this great Person He was carried to the grave upon the shoulders of the most Religious persons people of divers Nations being attendants of that solemnity Divers Languages conspired in one praise all tongues sent up the same Halelujahs With Prayers Psalmodies with Hymns the people of all estates and conditions of various Countries celebrated that sad solemnity and being carried to the Church of St. Basiliscus he was there interred He lived with great Fame his enemies could never obscure but encrease his glory his Memorial can never be buried in oblivion His enemies raced his name out of the sacred Dipticks but it will always remain in the Book of life The consent of the universal Church hath reckoned him amongst the Catalogue of Saints A very considerable part of Constantinople separated from the Church and had their conventions under some Bishops the favourites of Chrysostom These were called Joannites against whom the Emperour made severe Edicts for they would not be forced to communicate at the Altar whose Dipticks admitted not the name of Chrysostom and by reason of that great injury done to this famous Bishop and Saint the whole Western Church refused a communion with the Constantinopolitan Proclus formerly a Deacon under Chrysostom was advanced to the Archbishoprick of Constantinople He prevailed upon that most excellent and Religious Emperour Theodosius the younger the Son of Arcadius that the body of Chrysostom should be translated from Comanum to Constantinople which was performed 38 years after his decease The Corps were received with the highest joy mixed with infinite shame and sorrow with the extreamest shame and sorrow that so great a Prelate so admirable a Preacher so holy a man Christians should banish into the remotest parts of the World What infinite sorrow to conceive that a Christian City should be deprived of so glorious a Person and his death to be hastened by the hands of Christians whose life deserved to be prolonged by all possible care and industry Yet what joy to see the Empire changed the City all attending the Ship that brought the Corps of their banished Archbishop Theodosius himself an Emperour composed with valour and goodness a person of the greatest courage and sweetest temper in the World being the chief Mourner And thus Chrysostom is carried with all imaginable pomp and with all the sacred solemnities to the Church of St. Sophia his holy name is re-inserted into the Sacred Dipticks and in the grave of Chrysostom all contentions were buried the Eastern and Western Churches reconciled no private conventions maintained but all met in the unity of the Spirit and bond of peace The works of this person are many and incomparable his Auditors after they came from Church would usually cry O Golden Mouth While he lived and two ages at least after his death he was known by common discourse and writing by the name of John but afterwards the glory of his writings gave him the cognomen of Chrysostom and indeed nothing can shine in greater lustre then he in the excellency of Eloquence piety and industry Thus these two great persons as the Phoenix having made a Nest which is her Funeral Pile of the odoriferous branches which the Aromatick Trees of Arabia afford by an agitation of the Air through the nimble motion of her wings causeth the Solar Beams to set it on fire which being kindled she lays her self quietly in those flames and there with great content expires knowing that of those ashes another more Juvenile and sprightly Phoenix shall arise so these great persons having prepared for themselves by their actions more fragrant and sweet then the odours of the East an Eternal Monument are laid in the grave in the sweetest repose knowing that out of their ashes there shall arise those Bodies which are in this World embalmed with the perfumes of a great Fame and the odours of glorious actions that shall be invested with light and immortality FINIS

of the Church by Schism and Sedition In his Solitude he was blessed with the Company of Gregory the Divine In the society of that most admirable person he neither wanted a Church nor Academy And that these Glorious persons might not be disturbed in actions of Religion Basils aged Mother the excellent Emmelia accompanied them in that Solitude and became the careful Caterer to provide them Herbs for their late Supper Incredible there was their pains the wild people thought Angels had descended to be their Gardians and Teachers Multitudes flockt to their Sermons many were Civilized and Sanctified by them Whilst Basil in this retirement enjoyed a perfect tranquility the Churches abroad were infinitely tormented with the Arrian Persecution Valens the Emperor had embraced that Heresie which he endeavoured by all Cruelties to propagate every where the faithful Christians were persecuted with Banishments Deprivations of their Estates Confiscation of their Goods Imprisonments and death it self whilst the Arrian Priests and Bishops took this occasion boldly to spread that wicked opinion by Sermons and Writings They came to Caesarea where they raised a great Contention against Eusebius and that part of the Church which adhered to him Eusebius was a better man then a Divine fitter to govern the Church then to dispute Cappadocia now knew the need of two such Excellent persons as Basil and Gregory were Basil imagined he could not enjoy that Heavenly Tranquility which he so much desired if any disgust remained in Eusebius his breast he rightly conceived that the love of God which he aspired to could not burn in brightest Ardours if it had not consumed all that rancour his Bishop had conceived against him Whereupon out of his beloved Desarts he writes to Eusebius the most Pathetick Letters that Eloquence heightned with Humility Affection Sorrow and tenderness could indite Those very Letters which work in the Reader strange violence of passions moved not at all Eusebius the old Bishop was peevish whereupon Basil with a profound Reverence and Humility writes a most submissive and passionate Letter to a whole Synod of Bishops met at Tiana that they would intercede to his Bishop that he would send his Pacificatory Letters to him into the Wilderness but still the old Bishop continued angry not the intreaties of Basil nor the Authority of the Synod could move him But the Arrians assault him now his Church began to be torn the City was pestered with the flocking of those Hereticks If the Metropolis was subdued ubdued the inferiour Sees would suddenly yield Eusebius though of an undaunted Courage yet was of meaner Learning who like a Pilot not fearing the waves yet wanted dexterity to manage the Vessel A General though he is fearless of death has a strong arm and an active body and can deal blows enough amongst his Enemies yet cannot secure his Army if he want Policy Stratagems and ordering of the Battalia are equally necessary to Victory as Courage and Valour In this great confusion of the Churches of Cappadocia with these dreadful conflicts with the Arrian Hereticks it was easily discovered there wanted some Excellent persons who with equal skill and Valour must oppose the rage and fury of this persecution And now this good old Bishop relents now his passion yields to Reason The Church must be succoured Basil is wanting Whereupon he hastens a Messenger to him who receives the Message of his Bishops reconciliation with infinite resentments of joy and kindness and so looking upon this Message as from Heaven he hastens to Caesarea where he falls prostrate at the Bishops feet who having cast off all his former rancour and indignation entertains him with all the Expressions of love and tenderness As the Earth which has been crusted over with Frost and lain covered with Snow by the Sun beams sweetly displayed on her is freed from those cold and uncomely garments and presently appears in a richer gaiety of Herbs and Flowers So that Soul of Eusebius possess'd too long with Furies Indignation and Anger being cleansed by the Angel of Heaven is now more gloriously inhabited by the Divine passions of love and kindness Eusebius his affection and endearments to Basil infinitely exceeded his anger Basil cherishes these new affections with all prudence with all vigilance with all tenderness and reverence imaginable so managing his conversation that his very looks his gestures his actions as well as his language should speak his love his respect and his fidelity to Eusebius All which he so discreetly and constantly performed that Eusebius was wholly turned into love and a great esteem for Basil By which means Eusebius retains the name of Bishop but Basil performs the Office Basil reformed the Clergy Basil commanded the Laity Basil withstood the Hereticks and yet paid all the due homage of obedience and honour to Eusebius Basil dared the Hereticks to disputation Basil constantly preached against them by the quickness and subtilty of the one the Eloquence and Piety of the other he settled the wavering Church and obtained a most glorious victory over the Arrian Hereticks The waves must now yield a passage to that Ship that is steered by Basilius The Army cannot but be victorious where Basil is the head of it The old Bishop is drawing to the grave with joy and a great tranquility he receives the message of death delivered to him by a Feaver Happy he was to live to those days wherein he saw his Church as houses when flames are about them yet secured as persons in danger of the Plague yet freed from the very fear of Infection Basil performs to his now dying Bishop all the offices which humanity and piety suggest which so possess'd the good Soul of Eusebius that when he was commending it to Basil he must lay his body in the arms of Basil in the hands of Basil he must dye Basil must close his eyes he would not depart out of this World till he had given testimonies of a perfect reconciliation and amity that they who were once separated in this life when the City received one and the Wilderness the other in the succeeding and ever-glorious life might have an eternal union where they might be entertained in the felicity of a perpetual joy from the fruition of one God in one everlasting habitation to live for ever and ever Chrysostom after he had performed The entrance of Chrysostom into the Holy Orders of Priesthood the Office of a Deacon with vast applause he enters into Holy Orders of Priesthood which he managed with all piety and industry His Sermons were constant he drew the whole World after him the piety of them were so admirable and their Eloquence so stupendious At Antioch he devoted himself wholly to study and preaching the affairs of the Church being managed by the Bishop of that See So business forced him not from his study but in a great serenity he prepared himself for exquisite yet continual preachings So great a crowd of people daily

wickedness that by an immediate consequence from their Sentiments no worship can be given to the ever-glorious and Eternal God no obedience or faithful subjection to the Supreme Magistrate no justice between man and man The same great person thus laments The absurd and foolish Philosophy which the World so much admired propagated by the late Mr. Hobbs and others had undone him and many more of the best Parts in the Nation The wickedness of our Opponents cannot charge the Commandments of the blessed Jesus with the least errour For the preservation and flourishing of Christianity we will put up our prayers to Almighty God that nothing may separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus Ordain O Lord a Lamp for thine anointed deck thy Priests with Salvation and make thy Saints sing aloud for joy Amen THe Compiler of this Tract hath not given the particular account of each Author out of which he hath collected this History but he assures the Reader that he Traded not with any fabulous Writer he durst not trust Chrysostom's Biographers but the Books out of which he hath taken this Parallel are St. Basil Graecè Ed. Froben Basileae 1551 Nazianzen Graecè Ed. Herbagi Basileae 1550. Chrysostom Graecè Ed. Savilianâ Aetonae 1612. Socrates Sozomen Theodoret Graecè Ed. Steph. Paris 1544. Photii Bibliotheca Gr. Lat. Ed. Rothom 1653. ERRATA PAge 11. lin 6. dele the Snow of p. 17. l. 26. set the colon point after Grave p. 63. in the marg for Appeals read Fraternal Addresses p. 64. l. 27. when the East was so dreadfully tormented are a Parenthesis l. 29. r. Bishops and dele the comma The PARALLEL Of the LIVES of St. Basil the Great AND St. John Chrysostom HElenopontus a mean City of the The Birth and Parentage of St. Basil Cappadocian Pontus had for ever been obscured in the Charts of Geographers had not the Birth of Basilius given it a perpetual lustre whose Parents were of ancient and great Nobility His Grandfather was one of the Nobles of Cappadocia and made more Honourable by the Christianity which he gloriously professed The Maximinian Persecution occasioned his flight into the Desarts of Pontus whither he with some brave persons his Friends and some of his Family retired and there for seven years he lived That wild Desart afforded no other meat than what his Prayers obtained from Heaven the Beasts and the Fowls that fed him were Prisoners of his prayers they being caught by no other Snares or Nets than those his Ejaculations had prepared Yet supposing men might afford a greater liberty and shew a more fair civility than the Beasts of the Pontick Wilderness he ventured again into the open Air of Cappadocia where though his expectation was cheated his Faith was permanent and what the savage Beasts did not act the devillish Pagans perpetrated by whom he received a cruel but glorious death the Annals of the Church perpetuating the day of his Martyrdom The Parents of Basil were Basilius and Emmelia Basilius his Sanctity advanced him to an Episcopal Dignity which he managed with great piety and prudence Emmelia survived her Husband many years who had the unusual felicity of the prosperous holiness of ten Children five of whom were Sons three of which were Bishops of eminent wit and holiness the glory of that present and succeeding Ages At her death which happen'd in the 90 th year of her age Macrina her eldest Daughter and Peter her youngest Son were present before they closed her eyes that heavenly Widow laid her hands upon her eldest Child which was Macrina and on Peter then a Presbyter her youngest Child and gave up the Ghost with these heavenly passages O my Eternal God in this my eldest Daughter and this my youngest Son I dedicate my whole harvest of Children to thy Divine Majesty and in these prayers I commend my Soul unto thee the first fruits and tenths are thine all O my God are thine into thy hands I commit my Spirit Of such a Father and such a Mother the great Basilius was born Anno 319. Constantine being the fifth and Licinianus the first time Consuls O glorious felicity an aged Lady living in such an exemplary Piety seeing her Children to be the Pillars of the Church and glory of their Age thus happily in the vigour of her parts and piety to breath out her blessed Soul Antioch the Metropolis of Syria receives an eternal honour by the Birth Of St. Chrysostom of Chrysostom which happen'd Anno 354 Constantius the seventh and Gallus the third time Consuls His Parents Secundus and Anthusa were of the Noble Race of the Senators of Antioch Milesius the Archbishop of that See was the instrument of converting them from Paganism to Christianity His Father Secundus died when Anthusa his Mother was but 20 years of age who after the decease of her Husband lived in a perpetual Widowhood Secundus was unwilling to survive that glorious honour which Christianity had conferred on him fearing he might defile the white Garments of his Baptism with a subsequent viciousness She to manifest that entire love which Christianity had encreased in her purer breast to her Husband gained that honour from the Enemies of Christianity that Libanius the Pagan yet Eloquent Orator of Antioch enquiring of Chrysostom himself the age of his Mother Chrysostom answered 40 years and again asking what state of life she embraced he return'd Widowhood which she had continued for 20 years for his Father Secundus died when his Mother was but 20 years old at which reply he cryed with a strange joy and astonishment to his Auditors and Pupils See what famous Women are amongst Christians The Roman Orator to that profuse Gentleman who upbraided him with the meanness of his Parentage smartly replied I give a lustre to my Family but you have obscured the glory of your Ancestors Of these great Persons the question will not easily be determined whether from their Parents they received or unto them gave the greater Splendor But it is unquestionably true that no Parents had Children of greater Excellencies nor Children had Parents of higher Accomplishments These persons of singular extraction remembred the Nobility of their birth and would do nothing unworthy of so great a descent As China Dishes receive their perfection from a long continuance in the Earth and thereby are prepar'd for ornament and most excellent uses so Nobility dignified by a continued succession is fitted for the gallantest imployments and the greatest actions Happy certainly were those Ages of the Church when Nobles offer'd themselves up willingly to serve the Lord when a Chair of State was not more valued than an Episcopal See Plato rejoyced in the happiness of those Commonwealths who had Philosophers for their Princes and certainly it would be a great felicity and splendor to the Church if the Nobility were her Prelates and Governours The Revenues and Dignity of the Church generally came from the Nobility who divested