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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52277	The unreasonableness of a separation from the new bishops, or, A treatise out of ecclesiastical history shewing that although a bishop was unjustly deprived, neither he nor the church ever made a separation, if the successor was not a heretick / translated out of an ancient Greek manuscript in the publick library at Oxford, by Humfrey Hody ...; Anglicani novi schismatis redargutio. English.	Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, ca. 1256-ca. 1335.; Hody, Humphrey, 1659-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing N1076; ESTC R18833	16,596	38

Treasurer usurps the Throne and Tarasius dies and the holy Patriarch Nicephorus succeeds him He constrains the Emperour to receive Joseph again whom Tarasius had deprived Upon which Theodorus a second time withdraws from the Church A while after that Emperour and his Son Stauracius dying Michael Curopalates gets the Sceptre and the Patriarch Nicephorus taking hold of that opportunity deprives Joseph again and so he and Theodorus are reconciled But those opprobrious invectives that Theodorus during his banishment had used against the holy Tarasius and Nicephorus were by no means approv'd of by the Church as proceeding from littleness of mind For the holy Methodius in his Epistle to the Monks of Studium has these words If your Bl. Abbot had not retracted what he spoke against the holy Tarasius and Nicephorus he should not have been Fellow-minister with us we would not have receiv'd him into our Communion These things are found in the second Book of the holy Nicon in one of the Epistles of Methodius The same holy Methodius in his last Testament which he made at his death makes this Ordinance concerning the Monks of Studium that refused to join in Communion with the Catholick Church If they repent and come over to the Catholick Church and renounce their Schism let them be receiv'd as barely Christians but by no means be advanc'd to the Priesthood Thus in the Volume of Councils which is read in the Church as every body knows all those things that were spoken and written against the holy Patriarchs Tarasius and Nicephorus are made an Anathema And moreover concerning the same Affair of Theodorus Studites this also is written That the holy Theodorus did not do well in separating himself from the Communion of the Catholick Church and the holy Patriarchs Tarasius and Nicephorus for they were then the Church For if we cannot withdraw our selves from the Communion of any ordinary Priest without the sin of Heresie how much less may we separate from the Communion of such holy orthodox Patriarchs the Luminaries of the World And although the holy Theodorus now with God was so far hurried away as to make this Schism yet afterwards he relinquisht it and set himself right again as the holy Methodius manifests in the foresaid Epistle And the saying of the Prophet David was fulfilled in this holy Man Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand After this during the Reigns of Leo Armenius Michael Traulus and his Son Theophilus successively for the space of twenty six Years there was not one orthodox Patriarch but all were of the Sect of the Iconomachi and maintained the Opinion of the Emperours But after the death of Theophilus his Wife the blessed Theodora together with a Synod plac'd the holy Methodius in the See who was suceeded by the great Ignatius Then Michael reigning with his Mother Theodora was together with her corrupted and was therefore sharply reprov'd by the holy Ignatius and excluded the Communion of the Church Caesar therefore being able to doe what he pleas'd by his Imperial power depos'd and banish'd Ignatius and establish'd Photius in his stead After this came Basilius Macedo to the Crown and he presently deposes Photius and reestablishes Ignatius but after the death of Ignatius he again restores Photius Which indeed is a thing to be wonder'd at For if Photius was depos'd as an Adulterer and Usurper of the Throne how comes he again to be promoted as innocent But be it as it will the Church however receives and acknowledges and honours them both because Orthodox and thus she says in her Diptychs May the memory of Ignatius Photius Stephanus and Antonius the most holy Patriarchs be everlasting and whatsoever is spoken against Ignatius and Photius and Stephanus and Antonius the most holy Patriarchs is an Anathema Now let the Hearer observe again that even the holy Ignatius did not because he was unjustly thrust out of the See either recede from the Communion of Photius or perswade the People to do so For this is the scope and design of all the Histories that are here produced To shew that not one of all those Patriarchs that were unjustly and uncanonically thrust out of their proper Sees did ever withdraw himself from the Communion of his Successor or perswade the People to separate from the Church but that both they and the People continued in Communion if so be their Successors were Orthodox After this Leo the Son of Basilius being possess'd of the Imperial Sceptre depriv'd that orthodox Patriarch whom he found in the See and promoted Stephanus his own Brother in his room one that was sound indeed in the Faith but nevertheless was made Patriarch contrary to the Canons But no Schism was made in the Church upon that account For Stephanus likewise was own'd and receiv'd by her So that thus she speaks in her Diptychs May the memory of Ignatius Photius and Stephanus the most holy Patriarchs be everlasting The same Emperor Leo surnamed the Philosopher ejected the most rightfull Patriarch Nicolaus a Man renowned for his Orthodoxy out of the See because he refused to consent to his fourth Marriage and oppos'd him earnestly in his design of making it lawfull to marry the fourth time and yet to continue in government though in his room he advanc'd Euthymius who was Syncellus's or Nicolaus's Assessor Here observe again that the Patriarch Nocolaus did not separate himself from the Catholick Church or from Euthymius nor teach the People to do so and that undoubtedly because Euthymius was orthodox Nay when after the decease of the Emperor Leo his Brother Alexander that succeeded him deposed Euthymius and replaced Nicolaus who was yet living in the See yet the Ordinations of Euthymius were not rejected seeing that they were orthodox and by an orthodox Patriarch These things are written in the History of Zonaras The Emperor Manuel very wrongfully ejected Cosmas Atticus the Patriarch a Man full of Piety and Goodness and advanc'd another to his See But Cosmas though highly resenting this injustice did not however either himself break off from the Communion of the Church or incite the People to such a Schism But he made this denunciation That the Empress should never have any male Issue which accordingly came to pass for the Emp. Alexius was born of the second Wife Mary that that was descended from the Latins Upon this imprecation of Cosmas Contostephanus of Scio one of the By-standers out of zeal for the Empress pressed toward him to strike him but was stopt by some body Let him alone says Cosmas for he himself suddenly shall have a stroke from a stone which accordingly came to pass For not long after Contostephanus was kill'd with the blow of a Stone in the War at Corcyra This is in the History of Choniates The Emperor Isaacius Angelus finding Basilius Camaterus in the Patriarchal Chair deposed him without any just