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A36263	A vindication of the deprived Bishops, asserting their spiritual rights against a lay-deprivation, against the charge of schism, as managed by the late editors of an anonymous Baroccian ms in two parts ... to which is subjoined the latter end of the said ms. omitted by the editors, making against them and the cause espoused by them, in Greek and English.	Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711.	1692 (1692)	Wing D1827; ESTC R10150	124,503	104

Photians and so continues to this very day This Council was repealed in the time of this very Emperor The Doctrine and Creed of Photius concerning the Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father alone was also restored And this advanced the Dispute from a charge of Schism alone to a charge of Heresie also in the opinion of this Author Those servile notions also of allowing even pretended General Councils a Power only of ratifying not of debating the Predecisions of the Pope have been generally disowned and looked upon as very odious in all the Emperors who have endeavoured to restore them This the two Palaeologi Michael and John found to their cost the one in the Council of Lyons in the year 1275. the other in the Council of Florence in the year 1437. nor do the numbers of those who are mentioned in this Latinizing Synod either of those who had still sided with Ignatius or of those who were here received upon their revolting from Photius seem sufficient to have carried the Cause on that side by equal management especially considering that the later would in that Case have given their Suffrages against them And who could look upon this as a fair Decision with regard to Conscience that was so manifestly contrary to the sense of the greater numbers of their own Church which ought alone to have been owned for the competent Judge in Causes between her own Members 35 Here therefore Ignatius injured his good Cause by this way of defending it and gave Photius new advantages against him However he found no farther opposition from him during his own Life Ignatius died Octob. 23. 878. and then Photius was restored by the same Emperor that had before excluded him Yet with no such inconsistency as our Author fancies He that was an adulterer and an invader whilst the true Husband was living might now be a Husband and just Possessor after the true Husband was deceased Probably the Emperor himself when his Passion was over might think himself obliged in Conscience and Honour to make him this honourable Amends for his past irregular and unequal proceedings against him though I know Nicetas who was an Ignatian pretends other Arts whereby he regained the Emperor's favour And indeed we have Photius's Cause conveyed to us with no small disadvantage His Adversaries at that very time suppressed his principal Writings on that Subject they seized and burnt his Original Papers before any Copies could be transcribed they have afterwards had it in their Power to suppress many of his other Works whilst the Empire of Constantinople was in the hands of Latines or Latinizing Greeks and they have since had it in their Power to hinder the Printing of as many of them as have not fallen into the hands of Protestants This no doubt must needs have proved very prejudicial to a right understanding of his Cause that we have very few assistances for understanding it but from his professed and very inveterate Enemies However it was Photius on this restitution had now no longer any Rival that could pretend a better Title So that now they had nothing plausible to pretend for themselves that they would not own him However it appears from this Nicetas that the Ignatian Party still retained their old resentments when even Ignatius himself if he had been living had less to say for himself than formerly and his followers had yet much less to say for themselves now than he had The next year therefore after hi● new restitution that is in the year 879. Photius calls a General Council wherein he is confirmed by Pope John's consent his Legates b●ing present and the Eighth General Council in the Latine account expresly repealed this being received in stead of it by the modern Greeks to this day wherein the second Nicene is received among the General Councils as the Greeks do still receive it wherein the Creed of Constantinople is received without any mention of the Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Son nay with Censures against Innovators of it and wherein lastly Censures are threatned against all who would not submit and own Photius for their lawfull Patriarch These are the principal particulars here decreed as appears from the fragments of this Council first published by Dr. Beveridge from Oxford MSS. most of them from Beccus a zealous Latinizer though Baronius is willing to call them in question for not being mentioned by later Men than Beccus And the Pope's Legates assent to all and as to that particular of obliging all to submit to Photius the Pope had given them particular and express Orders in his Letters and Instructions still extant So that now the Ignatians could no longer pretend any Patronage of the Roman Church to countenance them in their Schism And to sweeten them the more it was also here expresly stipulated that there should be no indecent reflections on the Memory of Ignatius The Pope was gained by his finding the Emperor bent on it and by the beneficial agreements made with Photius in order to it He obliged Photius to quit his Right in the Bulgarians a grant which his Predecessor could not gain even from Ignatius who had been so much obliged by him He obliged him also to quit the Communion of some of his own Excommunicates as himself also disowned the Schismaticks from Photius And this probably went far towards the uniting the Ignatians when the exasperating severities were laid aside and there was now no Rival nor considerable Authority to head them And this in all likelihood was the reason why notwithstanding their former heats they are nevertheless both of them mentioned honourably in the Synodicon It was in course to be expected concerning Photius because he was the last in Possession and because his Disputes with the Latines started on that occasion obtained afterwards so Universally that his sense is the sense of the Greek Church to this very day And though Ignatius's sense be now as generally deserted yet the union of the Ignatians did necessarily require a decent behaviour to his Memory which was now no longer difficult to be granted when he was now no longer capable of being a Rival Thence forward therefore Photius seemed to have enjoyed more quietness till the year 886. and the Succession of Leo Sapiens which is the last time we find him mentioned in History 36. And now in this whole History thus represented there is nothing that if fairly understood will make for the purpose either of our Author or of our Adversaries Our Author pretends that they neither of them separated from each other's Communion as thinking each other Orthodox and that they did not scrupulously enquire into each other's Ordinations But it is very strange he should so much as pretend it when the contrary is so very notorious What account then can they give of all those Severities and Persecutions which are mentioned of Photius against the Ignatians if not to force them to his Communion What needed

But in this whole Dispute the Emperor's Authority is never urged but that of the Synods that appeared on the one side or the other And the Roman Synod was so little regarded by Photius and the Bishops of his Party that they also condemned Pope Nicholas This was in the latter end of the Reign of his Patron Michael after Basilius Macedo was now made Caesar that is after the 26th of May 867. 34. In the latter end of that same Year Sept. 24. Michael was murdered This Photius upbraided Basilius with and excommunicated him for it This makes Basilius immediately dispossess him We are told that he did it the very next day after his Succession However the Emperour himself did not look on his own dispossessing him of the Patriarchal Palace as any Decision of the Question concerning his Right The worst Interpretation we can make of it is that he followed his own Resentment in the Case as several Authors say he did or that he followed the Precedents of Anastasius Dicorus and the great Justinian who as we have seen first deprived their Patriarchs before they judicially condemned them This could hardly have been made a Precedent by him if he himself had not been under a present and a great Resentment if he had not followed them in their Passion as well as in the Fact that proceeded from it It becomes us rather to put the best Interpretation we can on the Facts of those who are deceased whose Lives did otherwise not make them obnoxious to have the worst things presumed concerning them The rather in this case because there was another Reason as consistent with the Design of Basilius and much more agreeable with his Honour Ignatius when he was before the Synod of Photius pleaded that he ought to be restored to his Possession before he could be obliged to answer to a synodical Judgment This Plea therefore being canonical ought to have been admitted by the Synod that deprived him the putting him therefore into a present Possession even before a new synodical Tryall was no more than what ought to have been done by the Synod itself and their proceeding irregularly could not therefore prejudge against the Canons that required it nor hinder the putting it in practice as soon as the violence was over that occasioned the Violation of those Canons Yet it was so to be understood as not to prejudge any thing concerning the Merit of the Cause Otherwise instead of doing Ignatius a Kindness it had done him a Prejudice by the Rules of Discipline then received in the Eastern Church he had thereby made himself really obnoxious to the Apostolical Canon which Photius had no colour to charge him with before That Canon was then received in the Eastern Church and made it a new Cause of Deprivation if any Bishop did forcibly intrude himself into a present Possession by the assistance of the Secular Power So far that Eastern Church whose sense our Adversaries pretend to gather from these instances was from acknowledging the lawfulness of Bishops obtruded by the Secular Power that with them it rather prejudiced a good that advantaged a suspicious Title This by the way it were well our Adversaries would think of how it affects the Case of our present intruders The rather because it does not only deprive them of the benefit of this argument from these Eastern Precedents but may also be urged against them wherever these Canons have been received as these first fifty have been generally in most even of our Western Collections However that the Emperor did not look upon his own actings as decisive in this Case appears from hence that he ordered both Parties to send their Legates to the Pope to inform him throughly of the matter of Fact and that withall he convened a pretended General Council for a final decision of the Dispute I rather suspect that he ascribed more to the determination of Pope Nicholas than either the Doctrines of his own Church or his own Preingagements would fairly allow of and that he might therefore look on his own putting Ignatius in Possession as an executing the Decree of the Roman Council Plainly he did more herein than several of his own Party did like First he preferred the Judgment of a foreign Italian before that of a Domestick Council This was what was opposed not only by his Predecessor Michael but also by his Successors in the Eastern Church to this very day nay what himself after repealed in the Synod of Photius in the year 879. Then he preferred that elder Synod of Nicholas in the year 863. before the later Synod of Photius that third of his against Pope Nicholas and his Synod as the two former had been against Ignatius which had been celebrated in the very year wherein himself succeeded that is in the year 867. between the 26th of May whereon Basile was made Caesar and Septemb. the 24th whereon Michael was murdered He seemed to obviate this by calling this other Synod which now passes for the Eighth General Council with the Latines as if it had been to repeal that later Constantinopolitane Council Synodically This was in the year 869. but no liberty was reserved for a fair hearing of things in this Council Ignatius had before that immediately upon his return into his place done all that ought to have been reserved for the Synod if any fair dealing had been intended he had deposed and excommunicated his Rival Not only so but he had nulled the Orders of those who had been ordained by him and excommunicated those who had communicated with him Nay the Bishops were all obliged before hand to stand to the decisions of the Pope's Council which it appears in the very beginning of this they neither thought consistent with the Honour of their own Church nor were they willing to be concluded by if the Emperor would give them liberty And Photius was immediately before any Conciliary hearing condemned and anathemetized and Ignatius owned before any Repeal of the later Council of Photius Thus this unfair way of promoting even a good Title did rather injure than advantage it The rather because Basile had in all likelihood obliged himself but a little before to maintain that Synod of Photius Photius pretended Basil's Subscription to his own Synod and his Adversaries themselves confess he did so and do not disprove what he pretended And we know it was generally received in those times that what was subscribed by the Augusti was subscribed by the Caesars also Here therefore I doubt we can hardly be able to excuse this Prince from a transport of resentment perhaps not even Ignatius himself that made them do things so little for the Honour of their own Church and in Favour of a foreign Power rather than fail of compassing their ends I doubt it was their consciousness of their weakness at home that put them upon these straits The Cause was within a little while after carried against them by the